Fleitas SCR, Zamora CL, Cabezas NEP

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 371-375
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ABSTRACT

A descriptive study of 24 patients with overacute crisis of the trigeminal nerve neuralgia assisted in the Clinic for Pain of "Saturnino Lora" Teaching Clinical-Surgical Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out, from January, 2008 to the same month of 2011, in order to evaluate the therapeutic course by means of blockades to Gasser ganglion. A solution composed by 0,5 % bupivacaine and betametasone was administered. The scales of verbal evaluation, relief degree and secondary effects were used. It was found that the age group of 50-59 years, and the female sex turned out to be the most affected, that 58,3 % from the members of the series arrived to the third visit with total relief and that the prolonged anesthesia was the most common secondary effect (37,5 %), although at the end there was a satisfactory response to the treatment.

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