[Blood cell catecholamines during different methods of postoperative analgesia]

Blood cell catecholamine levels were measured in the patients over the course of the postoperative period administered various types of analgesia, the standard mode with narcotic analgetics and the method suggested by the authors, consisting in blocking of the afferent nervous painful pulsation via the anterior abdominal wall. The blocking is carried out with a micro-irrigator placed in the muscular layer of the anterior abdominal wall during surgery. Procaine solution was employed for anesthesia. Postoperative analgesia efficacy was assessed from blood catecholamine levels. Analysis has shown the efficacy of the suggested analgesia mode.