Epidural versus intravenous analgesia for pain control in kidney donors, a retrospective cohort study. Is there a kinship relationship?
Yavuz Kelleci,
Ruslan Abdullayev,
Beliz Bilgili
et al.
Abstract:Aims: Best care must be provided for live kidney donors, including postoperative pain control. Treatment options include iv intermittent analgesics, iv or epidural patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). In this study we aimed to compare these modalities with respect to their analgesic efficacy.
Methods: A retrospective analysis of fifty-eight live donor nephrectomy patients operated in a 7-year-period in a university hospital performed. Investigational Review Board approval has been obtained. Data of the patients… Show more
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