Abstract
The alleviation of pain, both acute and chronic is an important concern in medical profession. The worldwide search for an appropriate drug to relieve post operative pain is still continuing. Present study was undertaken in search of a better analgesic for post operative analgesia. The study compared 50 mg tramadol given epidurally with 0.15 mg epidural buprenorphine. No other analgesics or sedatives were used. All cases were conducted under regional anaesthesia and the drug was administered through epidural catheter in L 2-3 epidural space. Peak effect of tramadol was for 4 hours whereas with buprenorphine it was 8 hours. The study concluded that he analgesic potency of tramadol is good but much less than that of buprenorphine.
Keywords: Epidural tramadol; Epidural buprenorphine, Post operative analgesia.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Satya Dev Gupta
Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesia, Govt. Medical College, Jammu, India
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i8.62
