Per-rectal Diclofenac Sodium an Effective Way of Postoperative Pain Relief

Abstract

Reduction of post-operative pain is important part of post-operative care. Per rectal route for analgesia is becoming popular day by day. Sixty patients divided into two groups. One received 100mg diclofenac sodium in form of rectal suppository and other group received SOS intramuscular analgesia post operatively. All patients included in this study had the operation where oral analgesia can be started after 6 hours postoperatively. In order to reduce postoperative pain and to avoid intravenous or intramuscular analgesia rectal diclofenac sodium is effective way of management.