I have recently heard a lot about pain pumps used with various types of surgery. Are they being used in plastic surgery?
April 25, 2008 @ 09:37 AM — by Roger Oldham
Pain pumps are becoming used quite commonly in plastic surgery especially with abdominoplasty surgery. Tiny cannulas (tubes) are placed along the muscle-tightening sutures. This allows the area to be bathed with a long-acting local anesthetic, thereby significantly decreasing the pain. The cannulas are then painlessly removed three days after the surgery.