Perioperative management of patients with cancer pain treated with opioids: a retrospective study

Autor: Motoyo Iwade, Takako Fujita, Keiko Hamada, Makoto Ozaki
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Anesthesia. 32:585-591
ISSN: 1438-8359
0913-8668
DOI: 10.1007/s00540-018-2518-4
Popis: We retrospectively studied perioperative management of patients receiving opioid treatment for cancer pain to facilitate establishing a standard policy for our institute. Subjects were patients who had been administered strong opioids for cancer pain and had undergone surgery with general anesthesia. We divided the patients into groups C and D. Group C was comprised of patients who had been administered their baseline opioids continuously during the perioperative period, and group D of those who had discontinued baseline opioid use during this period. We identified 70 evaluable patients, 36 in group C and 34 in group D. The intraoperative anesthesia courses were similar, being uneventful, in all cases. With respect to postoperative adverse effects within 24 h after awakening from anesthesia, severe adverse effects (additional administration of more than four analgesics and intense agitation) were significantly more frequent in group D than in group C (12 vs 1, respectively. p = 0.004). Univariate analysis revealed that baseline opioid discontinuation was the only factor associated with severe adverse effects [odds ratio 12.6, 95% confidence interval (1.49–105.8), p = 0.01]. Discontinuation of baseline opioid increased adverse effects in the early postoperative period, which were attributed to exacerbation of early postoperative pain.
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