Studies Show Positive Outcomes With ON-Q After Hernia Surgery

I-Flow has announced that two recently published studies of postsurgical pain relief after hernia surgery will be featured at the annual American Hernia Society meeting in San Diego.

The separate studies, led by Karl LeBlanc of Surgical Specialty Group, Baton Rouge, La., and by Kenneth Waxman of Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, Calif., were published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons and in the October 2004 American Surgery, respectively. In both studies, patients undergoing invasive inguinal hernia surgery who received pain relief with ON-Q realized a significant reduction in pain and in the need for narcotics following surgery.

ON-Q is used to significantly reduce pain and narcotics intake after surgery. ON-Q PainBuster is a device that consists of a small balloon pump that holds a local anesthetic and delivers it through a catheter directly into the surgical site.