Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

BACKGROUND: Postoperative complications substantially increase morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs. Understanding prognostic factors is essential for risk stratification, targeted prevention strategies, and development of prediction m…

BACKGROUND: A high proportion of patients who undergo surgery continue to suffer from moderate to severe pain in the early postoperative period despite advances in pain management strategies. Previous studies suggest that clonidine, an alph…

BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a well-known adverse effect of surgery, but the risk of chronic pain after gynaecological surgery is less established. METHOD: This review summarizes studies on chronic pain following hysterectomy. The underlyin…

BACKGROUND: Pre-operative identification of reliable predictors of post-operative pain may lead to improved pain management strategies. We investigated the correlation between pre-operative pain, psychometric variables, response to heat sti…

BACKGROUND: Monitoring of analgesia remains a challenge during general anaesthesia. Activation of Response Entropy (RE) to painful stimuli has been suggested to be a sign of inadequate analgesia. We evaluated the ability of RE to be more se…

BACKGROUND: Interleukin-6 is a pleiotropic cytokine with a wide range of physiological activities. It plays an important role in the immuno-neuro-humoral axis during stress and surgery. METHODS: Serum interleukin-6 in parturients was measu…

Outpatient surgery benefits patients only if postoperative sequelae are effectively treated. After laparoscopic tubal ligation (TL) intense pain and consequent postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) has been a problem delaying recovery an…

A prospective randomized study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of electrostimulation anaesthesia (ESA) when compared with neurolept anaesthesia (NLA). One hundred patients scheduled for hysterectomy received either ESA or NLA. Highe…