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Original Source: Reducing Shoulder Tip Pain Following Laparoscopic Surgery
Laparoscopic surgery is becoming a major procedure, owing to smaller incisions, shorter hospitalizations, and less post-operative pain as compared with traditional laparotomies. However, there is marked interindividual variability of post-operative shoulder-tip pain following laparoscopic surgery. The incidence of shoulder pain varies from 35% to 80% and ranges from mild to severe. In some cases, it has been reported to last more than 72 hours after surgery. The hypothes...
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Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in term...
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Single-site laparoscopic surgery reduces pain of tumor removal
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that recovery from an emerging, minimally invasive surgical technique called...
Single-Port vs Conventional Laparoscopic Appendectomy
Commentary on a study comparing conventional laparoscopic appendectomy with single-incision laparoscopic surgery, published in March 2013 in the Annals of Surgery. Medscape General Surgery
In selected patients with rectal cancer treated by skilled surgeons, laparoscopic surgery resulted in similar safety, resection margins, and completeness of resection to that of open surgery, and reco...
Pain Following Tumor Removal Reduced By Single-Site Laparoscopic Surgery
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that recovery from an emerging, minimally invasive surgical technique called Laparo-Endoscopic Single-Site Surgery...
Laparoscopic vs Open Surgery for Colon Cancer
Commentary on a study comparing laparoscopic with conventional open surgery for the treatment of colon cancer, published December 2012 in the Annals of Surgery. Medscape General Surgery
Simulations Enhance Laparoscopic Surgery Training
Simulation-based laparoscopic surgery training presents major benefits when compared with no intervention, claims a new study.
Regional pain block fails after laparoscopic hysterectomy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block did not reduce pain after laparoscopic hysterectomy in a study from MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland.
Laparoscopic Gyn Surgery: Fasting Better Than Bowel Prep
Fasting and mechanical bowel preparation before laparoscopic gynecological surgery improved visualization, but the slight benefit for surgeons was offset by adverse effects suffered by patients. Me...
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Shoulder Pain Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Factors Affecting the Incidence and Severity.
Abstract Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the standard treatment for gall bladder disease. However, despite its low degree of invasiveness, many patients complain of postoperat...
Drain after elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A randomized multicentre controlled trial.
BACKGROUND: Routine drainage after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is still debatable. The present study was designed to assess the role of drains in laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed for nonacutely...
Shoulder function and active motion deficit in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Purpose: To discover whether there are differences between patients with RA with and without active motion deficit in the shoulder (passive ROM greater than active ROM) concerning disease characterist...
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to compare the effect of postoperative pain control and adverse effects of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA) and multimodal shoulder injection after...
Is fibromyalgia a cause of failure in the treatment of a painful shoulder?
PURPOSE: This study aims to review the incidence of fibromyalgia in a cohort of patients who were treated for shoulder pain and address whether a concomitant fibromyalgia could have had detrimental ef...
