Preemptive peritonsillar infiltration with lidocaine for relief of bipolar adult post-tonsillectomy pain: a randomized, double-blinded clinical study

• Published in: European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology Vol. 270; no. 12; pp. 3195 - 3198
• Main Authors: Liang, Hui, Wang, Qirong, Cheng, Hongxia, Cui, Xinhua, Guo, Ying
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.11.2013
• Subjects: Adult; Anesthetics, Local - administration & dosage; Double-Blind Method; Female; Head and Neck Surgery; Humans; Letter to the Editor; Lidocaine - administration & dosage; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Neurosurgery; Otorhinolaryngology; Pain Measurement; Pain, Postoperative - drug therapy; Tonsillectomy; Treatment Outcome; Post-operative pain; Peritonsillar infiltration; Tonsillectomy; Bipolar dissection

There are discordant results in the studies of the peritonsillar infiltration in adults undergoing the tonsillectomy. The study is to compare the effect of the preemptive peritonsillar infiltration with lidocaine in bipolar tonsillectomy in adult. 172 adult patients were randomly located into five g...