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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2021

Influence of Catheter-Incision Congruency in Epidural Analgesia on Postcesarean Pain Management: A Single-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial.

Ying-Hsi Chen, Wei-Han Chou, Jr-Chi Yie, Hsiao-Chun Teng, Yi-Luen Wu, Chun-Yu Wu

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ying-Hsi ChenDepartment of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
Wei-Han ChouDepartment of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-6868-3985
Jr-Chi YieDepartment of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-0594-0854
Hsiao-Chun TengDepartment of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
Yi-Luen WuDepartment of Medical Education, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
Chun-Yu WuDepartment of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
National Taiwan University Hospital · TWNational Taiwan University · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) or epidural morphine may alleviate postcesarean pain; however, conventional lumbar epidural insertion is catheter-incision incongruent for cesarean delivery.

methodsIn total, 189 women who underwent cesarean delivery were randomly divided into four groups (low thoracic PCEA, lumbar PCEA, low thoracic morphine, and lumbar morphine groups) for postcesarean pain management. Pain intensities, including static pain, dynamic pain, and uterine cramp, were measured using a 100 mm visual analog scale (VAS). The proportion of participants who experienced dynamic wound pain with a VAS score of >33 mm was evaluated as the primary outcome. Adverse effects, including lower extremity blockade, pruritus, postoperative nausea and vomiting, sedation, and time of first passage of flatulence, were evaluated.

resultsThe low thoracic PCEA group had the lowest proportion of participants reporting dynamic pain at 6 h after spinal anesthesia (low thoracic PCEA, 28.8%; lumbar PCEA, 69.4%; low thoracic morphine, 67.3%; lumbar morphine group, 73.9%;

conclusionsEpidural congruency is essential to PCEA for postcesarean pain. Low thoracic PCEA achieves favorable analgesic effects and may promote postoperative gastrointestinal recovery without additional adverse effects.

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epidural congruencyepidural morphinepatient-controlled epidural analgesiapostcesarean pain

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