CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF THE EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA FOR BLADDER TENESMUS DEVELOPING AFTER THE LOWER URINARY TRACT OPERATION
1971 Volume 62 Issue 3 Pages 246-250
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1971 Volume 62 Issue 3 Pages 246-250
Bladder tenesums which develops after lower urinary tract operation, especially after prostatectomy for benign prostatic hypertrophy, is very distressing for the patients as well as for the urologists.
Antispasmodics and analgesics are usually of little use to improve the condition.
The authors tried, in 26 cases (In 21 cases, suprapubic prostatectomy had been performed), epidural anesthesia for bladder tenesmus, which is used for obstetric analgesia and for contol of postoperative pain, and found that the procedure was markedly effective.
Lumbar epidural anesthesia is effective not only for relieving bladder tenesmus, but also for controlling postoperative pain.
It is stressed that epidural anesthesia, carefully performed, is associated with little complication and should be more widely used.
