caa a22 4500 386348189 CHVBK 20180307111818.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022215100109429 doi S0022215100109429 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022215100109429 Can post-tonsillectomy pain be reduced by topical bupivacaine? Double blind controlled trial [Elektronische Daten] A double blind controlled prospective trial investigated the analgesic effect of topical Bupivacaine in 15 adult patients undergoing bilateral tonsillectomy. Each patient had one tonsillar fossa exposed to Bupivacaine 0.5 per cent solution and the other to normal saline. When visited four to six hours post-operatively, 12 out of 15 patients (80 per cent) stated that the Bupivacaine exposed side to be more uncomfortable than the saline exposed side. On the first post-operative mornning 9 out of 15 patients (60 per cent) confirmed the same. The remaining patients were unable to detect a significant difference and no patient found the Bupivacaine side to be more comfortable. These results suggest that topical Bupivacaine 0.5 per cent solution has no place in providing post-operative analgesia in adult tonsillectomy. Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1989 Violaris N.S. Plymouth Tuffin J.R. Plymouth The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/6(1989-06), 592-593 0022-2151 103:6<592 1989 103 JLO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100109429 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100109429 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Violaris N.S. Plymouth NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tuffin J.R. Plymouth NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/6(1989-06), 592-593 0022-2151 103:6<592 1989 103 JLO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge