A 6-MONTH AUDIT OF EPIDURAL ANALGESIA IN A TEACHING HOSPITAL

A 6-month audit of epidural analgesia in a teaching hospital

Introduction: Major laparotomies generally herald high pain scores postoperatively and have high intraoperative hemodynamic shifts.Traditional analgesic regimens with intravenous opioids were supplanted with the superior epidural analgesia (EA) in the mid-1980s.This was based on the perception that EA provided highly effective postoperative analges

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