Perioperative management of patients with cancer pain treated with opioids: a retrospective study.

Purpose: We retrospectively studied perioperative management of patients receiving opioid treatment for cancer pain to facilitate establishing a standard policy for our institute.

Methods: Subjects were patients who had been administered strong opioids for cancer pain and had undergone surgery with general anesthesia. We divided the patients into groups C and D.

Esophageal submucosal hematoma developed after endovascular surgery for unruptured cerebral aneurysm under general anesthesia: a case report.

Background: Esophageal submucosal hematoma is a rare complication after endovascular surgery. We report a case of an esophageal submucosal hematoma which may have been caused by rigorous cough during extubation.

Case Presentation: A 75-year-old woman underwent endovascular treatment for unruptured cerebral aneurysm under general anesthesia.

[Metoclopramide Induced Acute Dystonia during Intravenous Patient-controlled Analgesia with Droperidol].

A patient developed acute dystonia following intravenous administration of metocroplamide 20 mg. A 34-year-old woman underwent right hepatectomy, under general anesthesia managed with desflurane, remifentanil, and rocuronium. At the start of surgery, droperidol 1.

[Two cases of medicinal treatment of diabetic post treatment painful neuropathy].

Painful diabetic neuropathy is a common, difficult-to-manage complication of diabetes. We report two case of intractable painful diabetic neuropathy which occurred after the rapid lowering of blood sugar level. Although pregabalin, antidepressants, opioid analgetics and various nerve block did not improve their pain, clomipramine dramatically reduced their pain.