Balanced analgesia after hysterectomy: the effect on outcomes.

Balanced analgesia (an opioid and a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent) after hysterectomy often leads to better postoperative pain outcomes. Researchers compared post-hysterectomy patients who received balanced analgesia with those who received only morphine patient-controlled analgesia, and their relationship with pain scores, ambulation, and hospital length of stay.

[The effect of feeding clinoptilolite on the health status, blood picture and weight gain in pigs].

Under experimental conditions, the effect of the administration of 5% the Nizný Hrabovec locality was studied as exerted on the health condition, blood picture, weight gains, faeces production and odour in pigs and on the course of gastroenterites of alimentary origin affecting these animals. The administration of mixture A1 with a 5% zeolite supplement did not exert any undesired influence on the white or red blood picture and on the general condition of health; on the contrary, weight gains increased by 23% as compared with the controls. The faeces of the treated animals were normally shaped and the odour was just slight.