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VAS pain score Monitored anaesthesia care (MAC) + Local anaesthesia (LA) vs. LA only.
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Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the commonest median nerve entrapment neuropathy of the hand, up to 90% of all nerve compression syndromes. The disease is often treated with conservative measures or surgery. The senior author initially intended to treat his own neurosurgical patients concurrently diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome...
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... had VAS pain score of one at 24 hours after the surgery and one had pain score of one at one month. In the LA only group, all the 12 patients experienced pain with mean VAS pain score of 4.7, which improved postoperatively to 1.42 at 24 hours and 0.2 at one month (Figure 1). There was significant difference in intraoperative pain between the two anaesthetics choice (p=0.001) ...
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... had VAS pain score of one at 24 hours after the surgery and one had pain score of one at one month. In the LA only group, all the 12 patients experienced pain with mean VAS pain score of 4.7, which improved postoperatively to 1.42 at 24 hours and 0.2 at one month (Figure 1). There was significant difference in intraoperative pain between the two anaesthetics choice (p=0.001) ...
