Open AccessRole of wound instillation with bupivacaine through surgical drains for postoperative analgesia in modified radical mastectomy
Author(s) -
Nirmala Jonnavithula,
Himanshu Khandelia,
Padmaja Durga,
Gopinath Ramachandran
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.149443
Subject(s) - medicine , bupivacaine , anesthesia , analgesic , saline , tramadol , modified radical mastectomy , surgery , visual analogue scale , mastectomy , breast cancer , cancer
Modified Radical Mastectomy (MRM) is the commonly used surgical procedure for operable breast cancer, which involves extensive tissue dissection. Therefore, wound instillation with local anaesthetic may provide better postoperative analgesia than infiltration along the line of incision. We hypothesised that instillation of bupivacaine through chest and axillary drains into the wound may provide postoperative analgesia.