Analgesia-sedation during extracorporeal lithotripsy (ESWL)

Personal experience of analgesia-sedation in ESWL is reported, stress being laid on the importance of anxiety treatment by means of premedication with benzodiazepine. In personal experience, this preventive treatment proved very useful in reducing the consumption of opioids and thus in rendering the...

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Published inMinerva anestesiologica Vol. 58; no. 3; p. 111
Main Authors Pascale, S, Maione, A, Ferrante, G, Prizio, G
Format Journal Article
LanguageItalian
Published Italy 01.03.1992
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Analgesia
Anti-Anxiety Agents - administration & dosage
Benzodiazepines
Conscious Sedation
Female
Humans
Lithotripsy
Male
Middle Aged
Premedication
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Summary:Personal experience of analgesia-sedation in ESWL is reported, stress being laid on the importance of anxiety treatment by means of premedication with benzodiazepine. In personal experience, this preventive treatment proved very useful in reducing the consumption of opioids and thus in rendering the pain experience of patients undergoing treatment less unpleasant. At the same time it is reported that in some patients it was necessary to administer benzodiazepines with a more marked hypnotic effect. In these cases, the possibility of countering the hypnotic effect with a specific antagonist made it possible to resort to these drugs in patients who were subjected to ESWL in a day-hospital regime.
ISSN:0375-9393
1827-1596