Methods of local anesthesia in postoperative anesthesia of oncosurgical operations on the nasopharynx in children

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Postoperative analgesia should begin even in the operating room, so that at the time of awakening the patient does not experience pain and discomfort. The work is devoted to the problems of postoperative analgesia using local anesthesia techniques in oncosurgery of the nasopharynx in children.
 AIM: The aim of the study to analyze the primary results of the use of local anesthesia methods in postoperative analgesia in pediatric oncosurgery of the nasopharynx.
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: A study was conducted in the immediate postoperative period (16 hours) in ten patients, whose average age was 14 years with ENT surgical pathology. The physical status of the children corresponded to the III class according to the ASA classification. The patients were divided into two equal groups of 5 people: the 1st group included children who, for the purpose of postoperative analgesia at the end of the surgical intervention, underwent conduction anesthesia of the nose from three points according to Weisblat; the 2nd group (comparison group) is represented by patients in whom infraorbital anesthesia was used after surgery. Non-invasive monitoring of systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate was carried out. The oxygen status was monitored by pulse oximetry.
 RESULTS: The data obtained from the analysis of hemodynamic parameters, pain assessment by VAS (Visual Analog Scale) testified to the effectiveness of pain relief in patients in the study groups. The main hemodynamic parameters and pain assessment data for the groups were similar to each other and were within the reference values. There were differences in the duration of postoperative analgesia.
 CONCLUSIONS: The proposed methods of postoperative analgesia make it possible to abandon the use of narcotic drugs, synthetic opioid analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, but not excluding analgesics antipyretics. The positive first results of this study provide for the need for a further set of observations, possibly in different clinics due to the relative rarity of oncological pathology of the nasopharynx in childhood.