[Comparison of post cesarean section pain with general and spinal anesthesia]

ABSTRACT

Post cesarean section pain causes physiologic and psychological complications for mothers. The aim of this study was to compare the post operative pain between spinal and general anesthesia. Sixty women candidates for elective cesarean section were double blindly divided into tow groups of thirty. One group was operated under spinal anesthesia and the other group under general anesthesia. After the section, the mean administrated pethidine was calculated and the mark of the pain intensity was measured by MC-QILL questionnaire. Both the means of pethidine used and the marks of the pain intensity were significantly [P < 0.05] higher in the patients operated under general anesthesia. Local spinal anesthetics prevent post operativehyperalgesia, and reduce physiologic and endocrine responses. They also reduce the morbidity and expenditure of treatment