ArticleBMC anesthesiology2017
Retrospective case-control non-inferiority analysis of intravenous lidocaine in a colorectal surgery enhanced recovery program.
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A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial Evaluating the Use of Perioperative Intravenous Lidocaine Infusion to Decrease Pain Scores and Opioid Consumption After Robotic-Assisted Prostatectomy and Robotic-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy
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- Intravenous Infusion of Lidocaine for Bowel Function Recovery After Major Colorectal Surgery: A Critical Appraisal Through Updated Meta-Analysis, Trial Sequential Analysis, Certainty of Evidence, and Meta-Regression.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Resident Participation in Operative Fixation of Distal Radius Fractures: A Comparison of Outcomes.Journal of hand surgery global online · 2026Article
- Thoracoscopic Intercostal Nerve Block with Cocktail Analgesics for Pain Control After Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Designing the ideal perioperative pain management plan starts with multimodal analgesia.Korean journal of anesthesiology · 2018Article
- Role of Multimodal Analgesia in the Evolving Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Pathways.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2018Review
- Effect of Multimodal Analgesia on Opioid Use After Open Ventral Hernia Repair.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundEnhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs typically utilizes multi-modal analgesia to reduce perioperative opioid consumption. Systemic lidocaine is used in several of these ERAS algorithms and has been shown to reduce opioid use after colorectal surgery. However it is unclear how much the other components of an ERAS protocol contribute to the final outcome. Using a noninferiority analysis we sought to assess the role of perioperative lidocaine in an ERAS program for colorectal surgery, using pain and opioid consumption as outcomes.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective review of patients who had received intravenous lidocaine perioperatively during colorectal surgery. We matched them with patients who were managed using a multi-component ERAS protocol, which included perioperative lidocaine. We tested a joint hypothesis of noninferiority of lidocaine infusion to ERAS protocol in postoperative pain scores and opioid consumption. We assigned a noninferiority margin of 1 point (on an 11-point numerical rating scale) difference in pain and a ratio [mean (lidocaine) / mean (ERAS)] of 1.2 in opioid consumption, respectively.
resultsFifty-two patients in the lidocaine group were matched with patients in the ERAS group. With regards to opioid consumption, in the overall [1.68 (1.43-1.98)] [odds ratio (95% confidence interval)] analysis and on postoperative day (POD) 1 [2.38 (1.74-3.31)] lidocaine alone was inferior to multi-modal analgesia. On POD 2 and beyond, although the mean odds ratio for opioid consumption was 1.43 [1.43 (1.17-1.73)], the lower limit extended beyond the pre-defined cut-off of 1.2, rendering the outcome inconclusive. For pain scores lidocaine is non-inferior to ERAS [-0.17 (-1.08-0.74)] on POD 2 and beyond. Pain scores on POD 1 and in the overall cohort were inconclusive based on the noninferiority analysis.
conclusionsThe addition of a multi-component ERAS protocol to intravenous lidocaine incrementally reduces opioid consumption, most evident on POD 1. For pain scores the data is inconclusive on POD 1, however on POD 2 and beyond lidocaine alone is non-inferior to an ERAS program with lidocaine. Opioid-related complications, including return of bowel function, were not different between the groups despite reduced opioid use in the ERAS group.
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