扁摘術後の疼痛防止について

「ラングカイン」使用30例

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There has recently been a remarkable increase in the number of indications for tonsillectomy, and focal infection of various kinds, pulmonary tuberculosis, etc. are now counted among the diseases fitting this surgical treatment. However, the operation is followed by considerably severe postoperative pain, which causes in turn diculty of food ingestion, undernou. rishment and general lassitude in no srnall number of cases. How to remove this postoperative suffering is a problem remaining still to be solved by the experts.
The authors have lately used “langecain”, a depot solution for prolonged local anesthcsia, in 30 cases of tonsillectolny and report its excellent effect. The drug was injected in a dose of 20r 3 cc into the soft palate at a point near the capsule of the tonsil simultaneously with the preoperative local anesthetization. Most patients so treated felt no postoperative pain and had no difficulty in swallowing food. The drug injected enabled thcm to take supper on the day of the operation and resume their usual ingestion of food frdm the next morning on.