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Efficacy of Erector Spinae Plane Block on Postoperative Analgesia for Patients Undergoing Metabolic Bariatric
Pongkwan Jinaworn1, Patt Pannangpetch1, Kamonchanok Bunanantanasan1
1Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
Background:
Metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) advocates multimodal analgesia, discouraging opioid use to minimize side effects, such as nausea and vomiting, during postoperative pain management for quicker recovery. Combining erector spinae plane block (ESPB) with multimodal analgesia aims to reduce opioid consumption, improving postoperative recovery. This study aimed to compare morphine consumption between patients with severe obesity undergoing laparoscopic MBS with and without ESPB.
Methods:
This study enrolled 91 patients with severe obesity who underwent laparoscopic MBS involving either sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Of these, 63 patients were included in this study. The participants were randomly allocated to either the intervention group, which received an ESPB before the standard anesthesia protocol, or the control group, which did not receive pre-anesthesia block. The primary outcome measured was 24-h morphine consumption via a patient-controlled analgesia machine. Secondary outcomes included patients' satisfaction, postoperative numerical rating score, changes over time, and quality of recovery (QoR) using the Thai QoR-35 score.
Results:
We found no statistically significant difference in morphine consumption between the intervention group and the control group. Furthermore, our analysis revealed no significant between-group differences in patient satisfaction, postoperative numeric rating score, or QoR across all five aspects evaluated using the Thai QoR-35 score.
Conclusions:
ESPB did not reduce morphine consumption or QoR following laparoscopic MBS. Further studies are required to confirm and identify the reasons for the ineffectiveness of ESPB.
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