Trial reportBMC surgery2023
S-ketamine promotes postoperative recovery of gastrointestinal function and reduces postoperative pain in gynecological abdominal surgery patients: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC surgery, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of esketamine in reducing nausea and vomiting after anesthesia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Annals of medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Ketamine and esketamine for postoperative analgesia in gynaecological surgery.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
- The role of postoperative ketamine infusion in ERAS protocols following elective open abdominal surgeries, a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Feedback-Regulated versus Constant-Rate Sufentanil Patient-Controlled Analgesia for Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting After Laparoscopic Myomectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Drug design, development and therapy · 2026Trial
- Intraoperative low-dose esketamine on postoperative quality of recovery in patients undergoing open gynecologic surgery: a double-blinded, parallel-group, placebo- controlled trial.Annals of medicine · 2025Trial
- S-Ketamine Improves Slow Wave Sleep and the Associated Changes in Serum Protein Among Gynecological Abdominal Surgery Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Nature and science of sleep · 2023Trial
- Effect of Dexmedetomidine and Two Different Doses of Esketamine Combined Infusion on the Quality of Recovery in Patients Undergoing Modified Radical Mastectomy for Breast Cancer - A Randomised Controlled Study.Drug design, development and therapy · 2023Trial
- Sublingual ketamine for acute postoperative pain: an emerging addition to multimodal analgesia.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Article
- Impact of laser acupuncture on gastrointestinal function recovery in patients after acute appendicitis surgery: A retrospective clinical study.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2025Article
- The effect of an intravenous analgesic pump with esketamine on postoperative pain and postpartum depression in women with cesarean section.American journal of translational research · 2025Article
- Comparing postoperative pain relief: ketorolac and Nasocalcin spray versus lidocaine and Nasocalcin spray in abdominal surgery patients.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
- Esketamine combined with sufentanilFrontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Opioid-free strategies for patient-controlled intravenous postoperative analgesia: a review of recent studies.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Impact of intra-operative ketamine on postoperative outcomes in abdominal surgery: a narrative review.Translational gastroenterology and hepatology · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundThis prospective randomized controlled study was designed to evaluate the effect of S-ketamine with sufentanil given intraoperatively and postoperatively on recovery of gastrointestinal (GI) function and postoperative pain in gynecological patients undergoing open abdomen surgery.
methodsOne hundred gynecological patients undergoing open abdomen surgery were randomized into an S-ketamine group (group S) or placebo group (0.9% saline; group C). Anesthesia was maintained with S-ketamine, sevoflurane, and remifentanil-propofol target-controlled infusion in group S and with sevoflurane and remifentanil-propofol target-controlled infusion in group C. All patients were connected to patient-controlled intravenous analgesia (PCIA) pump at the end of the surgery with sufentanil, ketorolac tromethamine, and tropisetron in group C and additional S-ketamine in group S. The primary outcome was the time of first postoperative flatus, and the secondary outcome was postoperative pain score of patients. Postoperative sufentanil consumption within the first postoperative 24 h and adverse events such as nausea and vomiting were recorded.
resultsThe time of first postoperative flatus in group S was significantly shorter (mean ± SD, 50.3 ± 13.5 h) than that in group C (mean ± SD, 56.5 ± 14.3 h, p = 0.042). The patient's visual analog scale (VAS) pain score 24 h after surgery at rest was significantly lower in group S than in group C (p = 0.032). There were no differences in sufentanil consumption within the first postoperative 24 h, postoperative complications related to PCIA between the two groups.
conclusionsS-ketamine accelerated postoperative GI recovery and reduced 24 h postoperative pain in patients undergoing open gynecological surgery.
trial registrationChiCTR2200055180. Registered on 02/01/2022. It is a secondary analysis of the same trial.
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