Trial reportAnaesthesia2020
The effect of intrathecal bupivacaine/morphine on quality of recovery in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in Anaesthesia, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparative Efficacy of Nerve Blocks for Post-Operative Analgesia Following Robot-Assisted Prostatectomy: A Systematic Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2025Pooled it
- Analgesic efficacy and risk of low-to-medium dose intrathecal morphine in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: An updated meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Intrathecal hydrophilic opioids for abdominal surgery: a meta-analysis, meta-regression, and trial sequential analysis.British journal of anaesthesia · 2020Pooled it
- Intrathecal Morphine and Ropivacaine for Quality of Recovery After Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Drug design, development and therapy · 2024Trial
- Comparison of intrathecal low-dose bupivacaine and morphine with intravenous patient control analgesia for postoperative analgesia for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.BMC anesthesiology · 2023Trial
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- Impact of analgesic techniques on early quality of recovery after prostatectomy: A 3-arm, randomized trial.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2022Trial
- Effect of Pudendal Nerve Block on the Prevention of Postoperative Bladder Spasm and Catheter-Related Bladder Discomfort in Male Patients Undergoing Transurethral Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate.Clinical interventions in aging · 2022Trial
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- The Intrathecal Analgesia in Robotic Surgery (IARS) Study: Real-World Associations with Intraoperative Opioid Exposure, Fluid Administration, and Postoperative Pain-Free Recovery.Clinics and practice · 2026Article
- Retrospective analysis of a failed introduction of intrathecal morphine in elective orthopaedic surgery.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
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- Clinical practice guidelines for postoperative pain management in adults (2024 edition).Journal of anesthesia and translational medicine · 2025Review
- Intrathecal Morphine Versus Other Techniques for Postoperative Pain Management in the Context of Multimodal Analgesia: A Meta-Analysis.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Intrathecal Morphine in Major Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery: Observational Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Intrathecal Morphine Enhances Postoperative Analgesia and Recovery in Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy: A Retrospective Study of 272 Patients.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Article
- Navigating challenges in anesthesia for robotic urological surgery: a comprehensive guide.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Review
- Robot-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy: early outcome measures with the implementation of multimodal analgesia and intrathecal morphine via the acute pain service.World journal of urology · 2024Article
- The Effect of Epidural Analgesia on Quality of Recovery (QoR) after Open Radical Nephrectomy: Randomized, Prospective, and Controlled Trial.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy causes discomfort in the immediate postoperative period. This randomised controlled trial investigated if intrathecal bupivacaine/morphine, in addition to general anaesthesia, could be beneficial for the postoperative quality of recovery. One hundred and fifty-five patients were randomly allocated to an intervention group that received intrathecal 12.5 mg bupivacaine/300 μg morphine (20% dose reduction in patients > 75 years) or a control group receiving a subcutaneous sham injection and an intravenous loading dose of 0.1 mg.kg
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