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ArticleYonago acta medica2025

Epidural Anesthesia Is Effective in Lower-Extremity Burn Pain Treatment: A Case Report.

Yusuke Minamigawa, Hiroshi Ichibakase, Tomofumi Ogoshi, Takahiro Ueda

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Article in Yonago acta medica, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yusuke MinamigawaDepartment of Anesthesiology, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Osaka 569-8686, Japan.
Hiroshi IchibakaseDepartment of Disaster, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago 683-8503.
Tomofumi OgoshiDepartment of Disaster, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago 683-8503.
Takahiro UedaDepartment of Disaster, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago 683-8503.

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Abstract

Burn wounds cause pain through various mechanisms, making pain management challenging. Although treatment and management strategies for healing burns have been developed, clear guidelines for analgesia in burn injuries are lacking. Opioids are commonly used for pain relief, but regional anesthesia performed by anesthesiologists has shown effectiveness in some cases. We encountered a case in which epidural anesthesia was effective for analgesia of a lower-extremity burn injury in a 19-year-old man. The patient with burn injuries to his lower extremities was transferred to the emergency department. On the day of the injury, an epidural catheter was administered for burn pain. The epidural anesthesia was removed during hospitalization, but the pain worsened, so it was placed again to provide adequate analgesia. In this case, epidural anesthesia proved effective for managing the lower-extremity burn pain and facilitated patient rehabilitation. Epidural anesthesia should be actively considered for the management of burn pain.

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analgesiaburncritical careepidural anesthesiaregional anesthesia

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PMID40810038
PMCPMC12343183

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