Papers of the Week

Pain relief after surgery continues to be a major medical challenge in clinical practice. Lumbar spine surgery is associated with significant postoperative pain. Providing optimal analgesia locally in the area of surgical wound, with little systemic side-effects, is a favourable option and has become an intrinsic part of multimodal analgesia. We aimed to assess and compare the effectiveness of local infiltration and instillation of bupivacaine for postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery.