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Pretreatment with intravenous ketorolac has a preemptive effect for postoperative third molar surgery and extended the analgesia by approximately 2 h.
Studies have shown a preemptive effect and others have not.
Animal and human investigations propose that the use of adjuvant drugs as part of general anesthesia can act on the central sensitizing effects of surgical stimuli, making it more complex to discern a preemptive effect.
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A significant preemptive effect could not be demonstrated.
Second, the use of a preemptive force by one state might set a precedent that would lead to widespread abuse of the preemptive option.
Preliminary animal data has shown that nitrous oxide has a preemptive analgesic effect on postoperative pain.
Nevertheless, some studies using oxygen/nitrous oxide have exhibited a preemptive analgesic effect.
In conclusion, this study failed to exhibit a preemptive analgesic effect of 0.5 mg/kg iv preoperative ketamine, showing no significant advantage on postoperative pain and analgesic consumption.
Conclusions: Preoperative low-dose-ketamine did not show a preemptive analgesic effect or efficacy as an adjuvant for decreasing opioid requirements for postoperative pain in patients receiving intravenous analgesia with morphine after colon surgery.
Still, we expected that if ketamine had a preemptive analgesic effect, this would have become apparent in the immediate postoperative stage, with significantly lower consumption of morphine and lower pain scores in that group.
Moreover, anesthesia was maintained with nitrous oxide in both groups, which has been shown to diminish nociception-induced spinal sensitization in rats and to show a preemptive analgesic effect.
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