[Local analgesia in postoperative cleansing of head and neck infected wounds].

Introduction: After debridement of head and neck abscess, patients require multiple post-surgical cleansing procedures that produce mild or severe pain because are performed without any effective analgesia. Sedation techniques could not be applied at every cleansing process and even local anesthesia injected into the tissues during the procedure is contraindicated.

Material And Methods: We present the results of pain control obtained in 600 cleansing procedures performed by irrigating an anesthetic solution over wound tissues exposed after surgical head and neck abscess debridement.