The scalpel was once the gold standard for surgical incisions. Electrosurgery has started to supplant scalpels but is not yet acceptable for skin incisions due to the risk of burns and deeper injury relative to the scalpels' neat incision with less tissue damage. The unnecessary burden of ...
Post-surgical neuropathic pain was the most common etiology (49%), followed by PHN (28%). The median (inter-quartile range [IQR]) baseline pain intensity assessed by the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS-11) was 6 (5 to 8) and the median (IQR) final NRS-11 was 3 (1 to 5), with a me...
Management of the surgical incision site focuses on minimising wound disturbance, preventing microbial invasion and ensuring patient comfort (Deegan and Churchman, 2014). Mepilex® Border Post-Op is a self-adherent, absorbent post-operative foam wound dressing that absorbs blood and wound exudate and...
Regional anesthesia is strongly advocated within a nonobstetric surgical setting as part of multimodal analgesic strategies [47]. As part of the ERAC program, if neuraxial morphine cannot be administered, regional anesthesia plays a significant role in postoperative analgesia. Regional anesthesia improves...
(4 %) had pain that lasted for longer than three months, and at six months, only 18 (3.6 %) reported still having pain at the site of the surgical incision. Women with the TT genotype of C3435T were more likely to report persistent pain after cesarean delivery (a nonsignificant trend)...
Spinal cord stimulator explant caused by post-incisional cellulitis secondary to Varicella Zoster Virus (shingles) infection: a case reportSpinal cord stimulation (SCS)Surgical site infection (SSI)Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV)Implantable pulse generator (IPG)Case report...