Abdullah, Muhammad Akram Raja, Hassan Raza, Aftab, Saleem
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ABSTRACT
Objectives: Comparison of intravenous with intraperitoneal lidocaine in terms of pain relief after laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Methodology: This Randomized Controlled Trial was conducted at Department of Anesthesia, CMH, Lahore, we enrolled a total of 100 cases (50 in each group) undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy, having ASA-I and II criteria of either gender between 20-60 years of age. Two groups were formed, Group-A was allotted to the cases with intravenous group and Group-B was allotted to those infiltrated intraperitoneal lidocain. To control the severity of the postoperative pain, nalbuphine was used rescue analgesia. A 10 point visual analogue score was used to assess pain and duration of pain relief was recorded.
Results: Comparison of the duration of pain relief of intravenous vs intraperitoneal lidocaine in pain relief after laparoscopic cholecystectomy reveals that 139.10+90.6 minutes in Intravenous and 58.10+8.29 in Intraperitoneal group, p value was 0.0001.
Conclusion: We concluded that the duration of pain relief of intravenous is significantly longer when compared with intraperitoneal lidocaine in pain relief after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
