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- Anesthesia for cardiac surgery has shifted towards faster recovery methods that use non-opioid pain relievers and regional anesthesia techniques.
- A study compared patients who had cardiac surgery with and without specific pain management catheters and analyzed opioid consumption, pain levels, and hospital stay duration.
- Results showed that while the pain scores and opioid use after surgery were similar, the catheters led to less opioid use during surgery and shorter stays in both the ICU and hospital.
Article Abstract
Anesthesia for cardiac surgery has evolved toward fast-track recovery strategies incorporating non opioid analgesics and regional anesthesia. This retrospective cohort study compared opioid consumption, pain scores and length of stay in patients who underwent cardiac surgery via median sternotomy and did or did not receive preoperative parasternal intercostal plane block catheters with postoperative ropivacaine infusions. Postoperative opioid consumption and postoperative pain scores did not differ. Blocks were associated with decreased intraoperative opioids and reduced length of stay in the intensive care unit and hospital. Parasternal intercostal plane block catheters were not associated with decreased postoperative opioid consumption or pain scores, but were associated with reduced intraoperative opioids and length of stay.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/pmt-2023-0043 | DOI Listing |
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