ABSTRACT
The aim of the study was to achieve reduction in postoperative pain and improved quality of [pain relief] analgesia accompanied by reduction in side effects. The study was carried out by the department of anaesthesia and intensive care unit Nishtar Hospital Multan. The number of patients observed were two hundred [200], which were undergoing for thyroidectomy. The duration of analgesia between the two groups was almost similar. Rescue analgesia was given to 10 patients out of 100 patients in Buprenorphine and 24 patients out of 100 patients in Tramadol. Pain scores were more in group-I than group-Il, although nausea/vomiting ware more in group-I [Buprenorphine] than in group-Il [Tramadol]. Thus this analgesia regimen of intramuscular Buprenorphine was found to be an improved, balanced and safe analgesic technique for postoperative pain relief