Does a combination of gabapentin and local anaesthetics attenuate acute and late pain after abdominal hysterectomy?
Gabapentin and continuous wound infusion with ropivacaine 0.75% decreased analgesic needs and late pain in patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy.
Different methods of assessing exercise capacity do not appear to give comparable results and bear different relationships to haemodynamic variables and quality of life. Pedometer scores of customary activity may better reflect patients' quality of life and appear to be more closely related to limb blood flow than the maximal treadmill exercise test or the corridor walk test. The sole use of laboratory-based exercise tests in therapeutic trials may give a misleading assessment of treatment efficacy in heart failure patients.