Research progress of perioperative pain relief in living donor kidney transplantation / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

In recent years, living kidney donors is getting valuable with the increasingly needs of kidney transplantation. However, living kidney donors can receive no benefits but greater incidence and severity of pain compared to other kinds of renal surgeries. Thus, it is getting popular on how to relief the postoperative pain during perioperative period for living kidney donors. As multidisciplinary cooperation developing, preoperative predictive nursing, changed analgesia mode, modified pneumoperitoneum, and postoperative application of different kinds of analgesic drugs can further relief the postoperative pain of living kindney donors. This paper sums up different modalities of pain relief in patients undergoing live donor nephrectomy to provide reference to clinical decision of living kidney transplantation.