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[Effects of postoperative continuous epidural analgesia after laparoscopy-assisted colectomy]
Koichi Ono1, Junpei Shibata, Satoshi Tanaka
1Department of Anesthesia, Nagano Municipal Hospital, Nagano 381-8551.
Background:
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of continuous epidural analgesia on the postoperative pain and the early recovery after laparoscopy-assisted colectomy (LAC).
Methods:
A total of 50 patients undergoing elective LAC were investigated for postoperative pain score and other variables retrospectively.
Results:
Thirty patients who had received epidural analgesia (E group) showed significantly lower pain scores for 2 and 24 hours after surgery, compared with twenty patients who had received analgesics intramuscularly or transrectally (C group). The patients in the E group needed significantly less supplemental analgesics than those in C group for 12 to 24 hours after the operation. The incidence of postoperative complications and the early recovery were not significantly different between the two groups.
Conclusions:
These results show that postoperative continuous epidural analgesia is effective for postoperative pain relief in patients after laparoscopy-assisted colectomy.
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