Postoperative pain treatment for ambulatory surgery

Opioid and nonopioid components independently contribute to the mechanism of action of tramadol, an 'atypical' opioid analgesic.

1992 • 1,138 citations

Acute and Nonacute Complications Associated with Interscalene Block and Shoulder Surgery

2001 • 584 citations

Comparative effect of paracetamol, NSAIDs or their combination in postoperative pain management: a qualitative review

2002 • 512 citations

Postoperative Pain in Ambulatory Surgery

1997 • 439 citations

A Comparison of Regional Versus General Anesthesia for Ambulatory Anesthesia: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

2005 • 438 citations

Postoperative Pain in Ambulatory Surgery

1997 • 373 citations

Interscalene block for shoulder arthroscopy: Comparison with general anesthesia

1993 • 334 citations

Thirty percent of patients have moderate to severe pain 24 hr after ambulatory surgery: A survey of 5,703 patients

2004 • 332 citations

Continuous Popliteal Sciatic Nerve Block for Postoperative Pain Control at Home

2002 • 325 citations

Continuous Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block for Postoperative Pain Control at Home: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Study

2003 • 325 citations

Cyclooxygenase-3 (COX-3): Filling in the gaps toward a COX continuum?

2002 • 295 citations

Systematic Review and Analysis of Postdischarge Symptoms after Outpatient Surgery

2002 • 290 citations

Behavioural changes in children following day‐case surgery: a 4‐week follow‐up of 551 children

1997 • 276 citations

Parents' management of children's pain following ‘minor’ surgery

1996 • 275 citations

Severity and impact of pain after day-surgery

1998 • 272 citations

Survey of postoperative analgesia following ambulatory surgery

1997 • 265 citations

Effects of Postoperative, Nonsteroidal, Antiinflammatory Drugs on Bleeding Risk after Tonsillectomy Meta-analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials

2003 • 264 citations

Continuous Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block for Postoperative Pain Control at Home

2002 • 249 citations

Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block with a Continuous Catheter Insertion System and a Disposable Infusion Pump

2000 • 246 citations

Morphine-sparing Effect of Acetaminophen in Pediatric Day-case Surgery

1999 • 232 citations

Rectal and parenteral paracetamol, and paracetamol in combination with NSAIDs, for postoperative analgesia

2002 • 229 citations

Use of a Continuous Local Anesthetic Infusion for Pain Management after Median Sternotomy

2003 • 220 citations

No pain, no gain: clinical excellence and scientific rigour – lessons learned from IA morphine

2002 • 195 citations

A Systematic Review of the Peripheral Analgesic Effects of Intraarticular Morphine

2001 • 194 citations

Postoperative symptoms at home following day‐case surgery in children: a multicentre survey of 551 children

1997 • 182 citations

The journal of laryngology and otology.

1972 • 182 citations

Postoperative Patient-Controlled Local Anesthetic Administration at Home

1998 • 182 citations

A retrospective comparison of interscalene block and general anesthesia for ambulatory surgery shoulder arthroscopy.

1995 • 180 citations

Pharmacogenetic determination of the effects of codeine and prediction of drug interactions.

1996 • 175 citations

Pharmacokinetics of Opioids in Renal Dysfunction

1996 • 174 citations

A systematic review of COX‐2 inhibitors compared with traditional NSAIDs, or different COX‐2 inhibitors for post‐operative pain

2004 • 162 citations

Parecoxib Sodium, a Parenteral Cyclooxygenase 2 Selective Inhibitor, Improves Morphine Analgesia and Is Opioid-sparing following Total Hip Arthroplasty

2003 • 154 citations

Pain and analgesic response after third molar extraction and other postsurgical pain

2003 • 154 citations

Foot and Ankle

2007 • 151 citations

Effect of preoperative Cox‐II‐selective NSAIDs (coxibs) on postoperative outcomes: A systematic review of randomized studies

2005 • 150 citations

Postoperative Patient-Controlled Local Anesthetic Administration at Home

1998 • 143 citations

Patient-controlled Regional Analgesia (PCRA) at Home

2002 • 142 citations

Effect of tramadol and morphine on pain and gastrointestinal motor function in patients with chronic pancreatitis.

1999 • 130 citations

Parecoxib sodium has opioid-sparing effects in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty under spinal anaesthesia †

2003 • 124 citations

Predicting postoperative analgesia outcomes: NNT league tables or procedure-specific evidence? † †Declaration of interest. The authors are members of the Procedure Specific Postoperative Pain Management (PROSPECT) Group, which conducts procedure-specific systematic reviews of the literature using the Cochrane Protocol, supplements these with evidence from other procedures and from clinical practice, and produces guidelines for the management of postoperative pain. The PROSPECT Group is funded …

2005 • 123 citations

Pain Management in Patients Who Undergo Outpatient Arthroscopic Surgery of the Knee*

2000 • 114 citations

Early bioavailability of paracetamol after oral or intravenous administration

2004 • 112 citations

The analgesic tramadol has minimal effect on gastrointestinal motor function

1997 • 111 citations

Reducing postoperative pain, narcotics, and length of hospitalization.

1986 • 110 citations

Comparison of respiratory effects of tramadol and pethidine

1998 • 104 citations

Ambulatory Anesthesia Advances into the New Millennium

2000 • 103 citations

Systematic overview of co-proxamol to assess analgesic effects of addition of dextropropoxyphene to paracetamol

1997 • 100 citations

Presurgical intravenous parecoxib sodium and follow‐up oral valdecoxib for pain management after laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery reduces opioid requirements and opioid‐related adverse effects

2004 • 99 citations

Postarthroscopy analgesia with bupivacaine

1990 • 97 citations

Bandolier’s Little Book of Pain

1992 • 92 citations

Evaluation of Morphine Versus Fentanyl for Postoperative Analgesia After Ambulatory Surgical Procedures

1997 • 92 citations

Continuous popliteal sciatic nerve block for outpatient foot surgery – a randomized, controlled trial

2004 • 90 citations

Effects of Local Anesthesia on Recovery After Outpatient Arthroscopy

1991 • 88 citations

Postoperative Analgesia at Home After Ambulatory Hand Surgery: A Controlled Comparison of Tramadol, Metamizol, and Paracetamol

2001 • 85 citations

How much ambulatory surgery in the World in 1996–1997 and trends?

2000 • 83 citations

Gasless laparoscopic cholecystectomy: comparison of postoperative recovery with conventional technique

1996 • 78 citations

Mechanism of the Antinociceptive Effect of Paracetamol*

2003 • 77 citations

Analgesic effects of parecoxib following total abdominal hysterectomy † †Declaration of interest. The authors are grateful to Pharmacia for an educational grant for this trial.

2003 • 76 citations

Bandolier's Little Book of Pain

2004 • 75 citations

Hemodynamics and emergence profile of remifentanil versus fentanyl prospectively compared in a large population of surgical patients

2001 • 75 citations

A Single Dose of Morphine Sulfate Increases the Incidence of Vomiting after Outpatient Inguinal Surgery in Children

1994 • 73 citations

COX-1 and COX-3 inhibitors

2003 • 73 citations

Intra‐articular bupivacaine for pain relief after arthroscopic surgery of the knee joint in daycase patients

1988 • 71 citations

What we don’t know about paracetamol in children

1998 • 70 citations

The COX-2 Specific Inhibitor, Valdecoxib, Is An Effective, Opioid-Sparing Analgesic in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty

2003 • 68 citations

Postoperative Analgesia at Home After Ambulatory Hand Surgery: A Controlled Comparison of Tramadol, Metamizol, and Paracetamol

2001 • 68 citations

Spinal, epidural or propofol anaesthesia for out–patient knee arthroscopy?

1997 • 67 citations

Peripheral and Spinal Actions of Opioids in the Blockade of the Autonomic Response Evoked by Compression of the Inflamed Knee Joint

1996 • 66 citations

The effects of incisional bupivacaine on postoperative narcotic requirements, oxygen saturation and length of stay in the post‐anesthesia care unit

1990 • 65 citations

Alfentanil Causes Less Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting than Equipotent Doses of Fentanyl or Sufentanil in Outpatients

1999 • 63 citations

UNSUSPECTED EXTRADURAL CATHETERIZATION IN AN INTERSCALENE BLOCK

1991 • 62 citations

Unintentional Arterial Catheterization and Bupivacaine Toxicity Associated with Continuous Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block

1991 • 60 citations

Efficacy of rectal ibuprofen in controlling postoperative pain in children

1992 • 59 citations

Analgesia by wound infiltration after surgical excision of benign breast lumps.

1985 • 58 citations

Reducing Postoperative Pain, Narcotics, and Length of Hospitalization

1986 • 55 citations

The development of ambulatory anesthesia and future challenges

2003 • 52 citations

State of the art of pain treatment following ambulatory surgery.

2003 • 50 citations

Evaluation of Morphine Versus Fentanyl for Postoperative Analgesia After Ambulatory Surgical Procedures

1997 • 47 citations

Audit of pain management at home following tonsillectomy in children

2001 • 40 citations

Pain and activity disturbance after paediatric day case adenoidectomy

1997 • 40 citations

Postal survey of the anaesthetic techniques used for paediatric tonsillectomy surgery

1999 • 38 citations

Day care surgery

2001 • 37 citations

Postoperative analgesia for haemorrhoidectomy

1989 • 33 citations

Ambulatory surgery for multi-ligament knee reconstruction with continuous dual catheter peripheral nerve blockade

2001 • 32 citations

Alfentanil v. isoflurane for outpatient arthroscopy

1986 • 32 citations

Epidural hematoma in an ambulatory surgical patient

1997 • 31 citations

Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents

1999 • 29 citations

Tracheal intubating conditions and apnoea time after small-dose succinylcholine are not modified by the choice of induction agent

2005 • 29 citations

Practical Anaesthesia and Analgesia for Day Surgery

1997 • 28 citations

Propofol reduces the incidence of vomiting after tonsillectomy in children

1995 • 23 citations

Day care surgery

2001 • 23 citations

Postoperative Pain Relief Using Local Anesthetic Instillation

1988 • 23 citations

Postoperative pain following outpatient pediatric urologic surgery: A comparison of anesthetic techniques

1994 • 22 citations

Practical, cost-effective regional anesthesia for ambulatory surgery

1995 • 22 citations

An investigation of pain experience and management following gynecological day surgery: Differences between open and closed surgery

1995 • 21 citations

Study of the effectiveness of bupivicaine infiltration of the ilioinguinal nerve at the time of hernia repair for post‐operative pain relief

1989 • 20 citations

Is Succinylcholine After Pretreatment with d-Tubocurarine and Lidocaine Contraindicated for Outpatient Anesthesia?

2000 • 19 citations

Acetaminophen down-regulates interleukin-1β-induced nuclear factor-κB nuclear translocation in a human astrocytic cell line

2003 • 16 citations

An audit of paediatric day care surgery in a District General Hospital

1997 • 15 citations

Postsurgical chronic pain: A model for investigating the origins of chronic pain

2003 • 8 citations

Is Succinylcholine After Pretreatment with d-Tubocurarine and Lidocaine Contraindicated for Outpatient Anesthesia?

2000 • 7 citations

Epidural blocks for day surgery

2000 • 2 citations