EVALUATING THE PAIN LEVELS BEFORE AND AFTER LOCAL ANESTHETIC INSERTION AT THE SURGICAL WOUND

Aim: To evaluate pain levels both during local anesthetic insertion in the surgical field.

Methods: The research comprised individuals who had had acute appendicitis. They have been separated into two parts after receiving permission to conduct the study by lottery. Participants in Group 1 (research group) underwent prepositional infiltration anesthesia, whereas individuals in Group II (normal control) got post atraumatic anesthetic at the surgical site. The degree of postoperative pain was assessed using Visual Analogue Scale scores at 6, 10, and 36 hours.

Results: A maximum of 67 patients suffering from acute pancreatitis have been included in the study. They were evenly distributed between the two groups (n=34). The average pain score at 6, 10, and 36 hours has been 5.75+0.79, 4.87+0.69, and 4.34+0.56 in Group I, and 6.63+2.28, 6.01+0.79, and 4.67+0.67 in Group II. The p values at 4-hours were 0.02, 10-hours were 0.04 and 36-hours were 0.04. Those differences were statistically relevant.

Conclusion: Postoperatively management was greater with prepositional general anesthesia infusion than it does with the post-incisional infusion.

Keywords: Pain Levels, Anesthetic Insertion, Surgical Wound.