A study of patient-reported pain during bone marrow aspiration and biopsy using local anesthesia alone compared with local anesthesia with intravenous midazolam coadministration at a tertiary academic hospital in South Africa.
Fatima AlzanadMerga FeyazaZivanai Cuthbert ChapandukaPublished in: Health science reports (2022)
LA only is not enough to abolish pain of BMAB. Midazolam conscious sedation used with LA reduces pain to acceptable levels. Patients with previous experience of BMAB under midazolam premedication reported less pain. Furthermore, the experience of operator reduced the pain significantly.