Background: Postoperative pain begins with surgical trauma, the intensity reduces gradually and ends with tissue recovery. Effective pain management is essential to minimize unnecessary distress and potential complications. Aim: The study aimed to assess the effect of progressive muscle relaxation technique on post-operative analgesia in patients undergoing abdominal surgery. Materials and Methods: Evaluative research approach, quasi experimental time series design and simple random sampling technique were used to select 20 samples in experimental and control group respectively. Results: Progressive muscle relaxation was the only influencing factor on reducing pain on 1 st and 2 nd postoperative day and no significant association was found between the research variables and level of pain. Mean arterial pressure was positively correlated with level of pain (<0.05). Conclusion: Progressive muscle relaxation technique was effective in reducing post-operative pain and the results of this study can be incorporated in surgical units for proper management of post-operative analgesia.

BACKGROUNDLaryngoscopy and tracheal intubation manifests as transient, but distinct tachycardia and hypertension due to exaggerated sympathoadrenal response. The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of dexmedetomidine (Intravenous infusion at a dose of 1 mcg/kg) and esmolol (intravenous infusion at a dose of 1 mg/kg) in blunting the haemodynamic response secondary to laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation. Settings and Design of Study-A prospective, randomised, double-blinded study in Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, Assam.

Introduction: Surgical pain is an acute pain and is defined as conscious perception of noxious stimuli. Peripheral neural blockade has brought a new dimension in regional anaesthesia and is now a well accepted component of comprehensive anaesthetic technique. Aim: The study aimed to compare the quality of intra-operative analgesia and the duration of postoperative analgesia with use of buprenorphine and fentanyl administered with lignocaine with adrenaline in the brachial plexus block through the catheter technique of axillary brachial plexus blockade for upper limb surgeries. Materials and Methods: The study included 30 patients in group A (buprenorphine) and 30 in group B (fentanyl) with ASA I and ASA II physical status of either sex, in the age group of 15 to 60 years weighing between 45 to 85 kg undergoing upper limb surgeries. Results: The onset of analgesia in the operative and post operative doses was earlier with fentanyl than buprenorphine. The duration of analgesia in operative dose and post operative doses was more with buprenorphine. Quality of analgesia is found to be better with fentanyl. Conclusion: patients suffer needlessly due to improper post operative analgesia. So, the results of this study can be incorporated in anesthetic technique to reduce patient's post operative pain.