Abstract
Effective control of postoperative pain remains a key challenge in perioperative care, necessitating comparison of commonly used analgesic agents. Therefore, it is of interest to compare the analgesic efficacy of intravenous paracetamol and intravenous ketorolac in 60 patients undergoing elective surgery. Patients received either paracetamol 1 g or ketorolac 30 mg intravenously, and pain intensity was assessed using the Visual Analogue Scale with documentation of rescue analgesic use. Ketorolac produced significantly lower pain scores and reduced need for rescue analgesia compared with paracetamol (p < 0.05). Thus, we show that intravenous ketorolac provides superior postoperative analgesia within a multimodal pain management strategy.