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Postoperative pain from breast cancer surgery decreased without narcotics.
2004 JAN 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- I-Flow Corporation (IFLO) announced that results of a study of post-surgical pain relief after breast cancer surgery showed that the use of ON-Q Post Operative Pain Relief System following surgery for removal of axillary lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer resulted in statistically significant decreased pain and narcotic use by patients, enabling a quicker return to their normal lives.
ON-Q Post Operative Pain Relief System is a continuous non-narcotic surgical-site pain relief device. The study was conducted by Scott Schell, MD, PhD, and an abstract of the study was published in The Journal of Surgical Research.
Additional data presented by Dr. Schell at the Association for Academic Surgery's 38th Annual Meeting found that even 90 days after these patients completed treatment with ON-Q they experienced significantly lower pain and disability with movement of the shoulder, suggesting that the use of ON-Q may lead to a reduction in chronic pain after surgery.
"Although considered a safe surgical procedure, lymph node removal during breast cancer surgery is associated with post-operative numbness, paresthesias, pain, and muscle weakness. These complications have been reported in up to 35-50% of all cases and development of chronic pain after this kind of surgery has been clearly documented," said Dr. Schell.
"In this study, the use of ON-Q dramatically improved the pain experienced by patients, dramatically lowered the amount of narcotics needed, and decreased long-term shoulder pain and disability problems, which can be significant."
The randomized study involved 27 female patients who underwent axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) for breast cancer. Patients were randomized into three groups. Group 1 did not receive an ON-Q pump or infusion, Groups 2 and 3 were double-blinded and received either a local anesthetic or a placebo of saline infused to the surgical site with the ON-Q pump.
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