ArticleProceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center)2014
Evaluation of epidural analgesia for open major liver resection surgery from a US inpatient sample.
Article in Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05691933 (Ultrasound Guided External Oblique Intercostal Plane Block for Perioperative Analgesia in Major Upper Abdominal Surgery), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers.
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Ultrasound Guided External Oblique Intercostal Plane Block for Perioperative Analgesia in Major Upper Abdominal Surgery: Prospective Randomized Controlled Study
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- The analgesic efficacy of subcostal transversus abdominis plane block with Mercedes incision.BMC anesthesiology · 2018Trial
- The Analgesic Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Block for Laparoscopic Living Donor Hepatectomy: A Randomized Controlled Study.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- The effectiveness and outcomes of epidural analgesia in patients undergoing open liver resection: a propensity score matching analysis.BMC anesthesiology · 2024Observational
- Clinical Trial Study Protocol: A Prospective Blinded, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial Protocol to Assess the Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Block on Postoperative Analgesia and Recovery Quality in Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Effect of thoracic epidural anesthesia on postoperative outcome in major liver surgery: a retrospective cohort study.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2023Article
- Pain management after open liver resection: Procedure-Specific Postoperative Pain Management (PROSPECT) recommendations.Regional anesthesia and pain medicine · 2021Review
- Evaluation of the ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator in Elderly Patients Undergoing Hepatectomy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2020Article
- Donor Hepatectomy Surgery using Ketamine to Compliment Analgesia and Reduce Morbidity - a Retrospective Chart Review Investigation.Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation · 2018Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess the nationwide use of epidural analgesia (EA) and the incidence of postoperative complications in patients undergoing major liver resections (MLR) with and without EA in the United States. The 2001 to 2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample was queried to identify adult patients undergoing MLR. A 1:1 matched cohort of patients having MLR with and without EA was assembled using propensity-score matching techniques. Differences in the rate of postoperative complications were compared between the matched groups. We identified 68,028 MLR. Overall, 5.9% of patients in the database had procedural codes for postoperative EA. A matched cohort of 802 patients per group was derived from the propensity-matching algorithm. Although use of EA was associated with more blood transfusions (relative risk, 1.36; 95% confidence interval, 1.12-1.65; P = 0.001) and longer hospital stay (median [interquartile range], 6 [5-8] vs 6 [4-8] days), the use of coagulation factors and the incidence of postoperative hemorrhage/hematomas or other postoperative complications were not higher in patients receiving EA. In conclusion, the use of EA for MLR is low, and EA does not seem to influence the incidence of postoperative complications. EA, however, was associated with an increased use of blood transfusions and a longer hospital stay.
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