Control of Early Postoperative Pain with Bupivacaine in Pediatric Tonsillectomy

Ropivacaine compared to bupivacaine for post-tonsillectomy pain relief in children: A randomized controlled study

“…Somdas et al [11] also found that bupivacaine infiltration is effective when they used an individual paired study design. However, some investigators have been unable to confirm these results [9,[12][13][14]. Our results showed that preemptive injection of either bupivacaine or ropivacaine significantly decreased pain after tonsillectomy.…”

Pre-incisional infiltration for pediatric tonsillectomy: A randomized double-blind clinical trial

“…The use of different types of topical application or infiltration of local anesthetics have Pre-incisional infiltration for pediatric tonsillectomy 1337 been equally disappointing [6,8,10,[16][17][18][19]. It was crucial to find a method that substantially reduces post-operative pain and allows a faster recovery with no complications [20,21].…”

Modified infiltration technique in tonsillectomy: expanded case report of 25 children

“…The post-operative analgesic effect of pre-incision LA mixture infiltration in tonsillectomy was conflicting in different studies [9,12,13,15,16]. Few studies indicated that post-tonsillectomy pain management could be improved with infiltration of peritonsillar area [2,9,11,17,18,24].…”