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Efficacy of a single dose of a transdermal diclofenac patch as pre-emptive postoperative analgesia: a comparison with intramuscular diclofenac

Published in: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia
Volume 18 , issue 4 , 2012 , pages: 194–197

DOI: 10.1080/22201173.2012.10872852

Author(s): R Krishna Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, India , MS Nataraj Department of Anaesthesiology, India

Keywords: transdermal , diclofenac sodium , pre-emptive analgesia

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Abstract

Background: We compared the analgesic efficacy of a transdermal diclofenac patch 100 mg (NuPatch® 100, Zydus Cadila, Ahmedabad, India) and intramuscular diclofenac sodium 75 mg (Voveran®, Novartis, India) for postoperative analgesia, and the associated side-effects of the transdermal diclofenac patch.

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