Open AccessA comparison of effect of preemptive use of oral gabapentin and pregabalin for acute post-operative pain after surgery under spinal anesthesia
Author(s) -
Usha Bafna,
Krishnamoorthy Rajarajeshwaran,
Mamta Khandelwal,
Arun Verma
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9185.137270
Subject(s) - medicine , pregabalin , anesthesia , gabapentin , neuropathic pain , placebo , analgesic , bupivacaine , surgery , pathology , alternative medicine
Preemptive analgesia is an antinociceptive treatment that prevents establishment of altered processing of afferent input. Pregabalin has been claimed to be more effective in preventing neuropathic component of acute nociceptive pain of surgery. We conducted a study to compare the effect of oral gabapentin and pregabalin with control group for post-operative analgesia.