EPIDURAL TREATMENT OF PAIN IN BURN PATIENTS BY SUBCUTANEOUS PORT ACCESS

This study was undertaken to analyze and, by that means, to try to rel ieve the considerable suffering that burned patients experience as a r esult of the pain of the burn and that of the treatment by bathing and debridement. Pain relief was attempted by the administration of epidu ral analgesia and anaesthesia at the lumbar and cervical levels by cat heter placement and by the implantation of monodose systems of infusio n in patients with leg and arm involvement. When the patients were bat hed or debrided or other painful maneuvers were performed, they were g iven epidural analgesia and anaesthesia (10cc of bupivacaine to 0.25 % ) or surgical epidural anaesthesia.