ABSTRACT

Background

Postoperative pain is related to complications that alter the course and the duration of hospital stay. In this report, based on a dissertation thesis study, we aimed to evaluate from the postoperative pain management point of view, the contribution of diazepam, to the effects of dipyrone in patients undergone surgical operations in our clinic.

Material and Methods

A prospective and cross-sectional study was conducted at Adana Numune Training and Research Hospital General Surgery Clinic between February 1 and March 31, 2006. The study included 126 patients with ages between 15 and 75 years who planned to receive abdominal, breast, anal, and thyroid surgeries. All the cases were on oral dipyrone as the non-opioid analgesic agent. Cases were dichotomized. The study group consisted of 63 patients and were given 10 mg diazepam via intravenous 6 hours after the recovery. The data collected included age, sex, education level, health insurance, and measurements of systolic and diastolic artery pressure, inspiration rate, pulse, and visual analog scale scores performed at preoperative, postoperative recovery time, first, sixth, twelfth and twenty-fourth hours.

Results

A total of 33 patients were excluded due to additional analgesia demand, and the study concluded with 93 patients. There was no statistical significance when two groups were compared for visual analog scale scores (p>0.05).

Conclusion

Diazepam appears to have no postoperative value in contribution to the analgesic effects of non–opioid analgesics.