Pancreas

Perioperative Pain Management for Complex Pancreatic Resections for Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis.

Pancreas May 12, 2025 Supradeep S Madduri, Kristen R Szempruch, Dhruv J Patel et al. 1 citation

Pain control following surgery for chronic pancreatitis presents a significant challenge. Options like epidurals used in parenchymal preserving pancreatic surgery (PPS) are contraindicated in certain settings such as total pancreatectomy (TP) with islet cell auto-transplantation (IAT). Our aim is to assess the efficacy and safety of ketamine in these patients and compare it to that of epidural...