Efecto del cosedal para el alivio del dolor postoperatorio en la cirugía de hernia inguinal

SUMMARY Introduction: preventive analgesia in patients pending to a surgery is one of the major issues to be researched by the medical sciences specifically by anesthesiology. Objective: to evaluate cosedal effect for the post-surgery pain relief in inguinal hernia surgery. Material and Method: a prospective, longitudinal research was carried out in the Central Surgical Unit of the “Faustino Perez Hernandez” hospital. In this research 86 patients were included and distributed in two groups with the same number of members. Half an hour before the surgery, Group I patients were administered 1.2 g of intramuscular dipyrone; while Group II patients were administered oral cosedal (60 mg tablet). They all were operated with subarachnoid anesthesia. Aspects such as age, gender, ASA, surgery time, anesthetic time, post-surgery pain evolution and need of rescue analgesia need were analyzed. Results: in Group II patients the post-surgery pain intensity was 1.2 times less than in Group I patients. The need of rescue analgesia was 1.3 times greater in Group I patients. Conclusions: group II patients showed a lower post-surgery pain intensity in the first six hours after the surgery and they needed less rescue analgesia.