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Inventi Impact: Anaesthesiology

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  • Inventi:haa/23837/17
    Pregabalin Effect on Acute and Chronic Pain after Cardiac Surgery
    01-Jan-1970 Research 2017 : October - December
    Aik Bouzia, Vassilios Tassoudis, Menelaos Karanikolas, George Vretzakis, Argyro Petsiti, Nikolaos Tsilimingas, Elena Arnaoutoglou

    Introduction. Pain after cardiac surgery affects long-term patient wellness. This study investigated the effect of preoperative\npregabalin on acute and chronic pain after elective cardiac surgery with median sternotomy. Methods. Prospective double blind\nstudy. 93 cardiac surgery patients were randomly assigned into three groups: Group 1 received placebo, Group 2 received oral\npregabalin75mg, andGroup 3 receivedoral pregabalin150mg.Datawere collected8hours, 24hours, and3months postoperatively.\nResults. Patients receiving pregabalin required fewer morphine boluses (10 in controls versus 6 in Group 1 versus 4 in Group 2,\n

    How to Cite this Article
    CC Compliant Citation: Aik Bouzia, Vassilios Tassoudis, Menelaos\nKaranikolas, et al., â??Pregabalin Effect on Acute and Chronic Pain\nafter Cardiac Surgery,â? Anesthesiology Research and Practice,\nvol. 2017, Article ID 2753962, 7 pages, 2017.\ndoi:10.1155/2017/2753962, http://creativecommons.org/\nlicenses/by/4.0/.
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