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ArticleTherapeutics and clinical risk management2019

Fentanyl vs fentanyl-dexmedetomidine in lumbar foraminotomy surgery.

Bushra Abdul Hadi, Saleh M Sbeitan, Ashok K Shakya

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Article in Therapeutics and clinical risk management, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bushra Abdul HadiFaculty of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman 19328, Jordan.
Saleh M SbeitanIntensive Care Unit, Specialty Hospital, Amman 19328, Jordan.
Ashok K ShakyaFaculty of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman 19328, Jordan.ORCID 0000-0002-2387-6940
Al-Ahliyya Amman University · JOSpecialty Hospital, Jordan · JO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimLumbar foraminotomy surgery requires a potent opioid with short duration and rapid onset of action. In the present study we intended to compare the efficacy of fentanyl alone vs the combination of dexmedetomidine and fentanyl during lumbar foraminotomy surgery.

methodsThe duration and requirements for first postoperative analgesics, hemodynamic stability, and respective side effects were studied. A prospective, randomized, double blind study of 40 patients (fentanyl group [Fen group] and fentanyl-dexmedetomidine group [Fen-Dex group], n=20 each) scheduled for lumbar foraminotomy surgery under pharmaceutical care intervention was carried out. Patients were classified as class I or II, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification. Patients received intraoperative propofol, sevoflurane, atracurium, and either fentanyl loading dose of 1.0 μg/kg and maintenance infusion dose of 0.2 μg/kg/h in both groups. The patients of the Fen group received normal saline (0.9%) placebo, while the patients of the Fen-Dex group received dexmedetomidine infusion (0.5 μg/kg/h) along with the fentanyl infusion. Postoperative morphine doses were given. Hemodynamic stability, pain, postoperative analgesia requirement, side effects of drugs, and other effects were monitored.

resultsIn the Fen-Dex group, the pain score was significantly less than in the Fen group (

conclusionThe present study suggests the addition of dexmedetomidine during lumbar foraminotomy surgery at different levels would be beneficial to reduce morphine consumption and any adverse drug reaction.

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adverse drug reactionsdexmedetomidinefentanylforaminotomy surgeryhemodynamic stabilitypostoperative analgesics

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