Review article

Therapeutic injections of local anesthetics in pain management

Barbara Kolbah orcid.org/0000-0003-3452-6169 ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Ana Gavranić ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Hrvoje Šimić ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Duje Vukas ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Branislav Stanković ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Goran Bajek ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Darko Ledić ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Dean Girotto ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Neven Eškinja ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Zlatko Kolić ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka

Abstract

Pain is an omnipresent symptom in medicine. There is hardly a branch in which it does not appear as one of the main symptoms, the effect of disease advancement, a sign of deterioration or as a complication of therapy. The removal of pain is one of the main tasks of treatment, whether it is curative or symptomatic. Therapeutic injections of local anesthetics in pain management can help keep a patient an outpatient for longer, they can facilitate physical therapy, decrease the need for peroral analgetics and delay a potential surgical procedure. This article presents a review of the basic technique and several indications for the application of therapeutic injections of local anesthetics in the treatment of pain.

Keywords

injection therapy; local anesthetic; multimodal approach; pain management

Hrčak ID:

86945

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/86945

Publication date:

3.9.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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