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Objective To compare the effectiveness of postoperative analgesia and early rehabil-itation between the wound infiltration combined with intravenous analgesia and epidural analgesia after hepatectomy.Methods Forty-eight patients with liver carcinoma,37 males and 1 1 females,aged 40-65 years,ASA physical status Ⅰ or Ⅱ,were randomly divided into two groups.Patients in group T were given 0.375% ropivacaine 30 ml for incision infiltration before closing the abdomen and intrave-nous analgesia.Patients in group E were given 0.2% ropivacaine 100 ml for epidural analgesia. Pareoxib sodium 40 mg was injected intravenously 30 min toward the end of the operation.Pain scores were assessed by VAS at postoperative 2,6,12,24 and 48 h.Postoperative activity distance was re-corded on 1st,2nd,3th day after surgery;the time first getting off bed and hospital stay were recor-ded.Finally,the complications were also recorded.Results Compared with group T,VAS scores at rest and in activity 12,24 and 48 h postoperatively were significantly lower (P <0.05 ).Compared with group E,postoperative activity distance on 1st,2nd and 3th day after surgery in group T were shorter.Furthermore,the time first getting off bed and the hospital stay in group T were shorter than those in group E (P <0.05).The incidence of adverse reactions between the two groups had no sta-tistical significance.Conclusion The wound infiltration combined with intravenous analgesia is benefi-cial to early recovery and shorter hospital stay.