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Oxycodone versus sufentanil on pain management for spinal PVP surgery
Jing Zhao1, Shanshan Yu2, Jingfei Deng2
1Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Suqian City, China.
Background:
Anesthesia option is critical for Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) procedure in terms of its analgesic effect, sedation, adverse reactions and patient satisfaction. Oxycodone and sufentanil are commonly used as analgesic agents for surgeries in clinic. The comparison of clinical effect between oxycodone and sufentanil for pain management in PVP has not been elucidated.
Questions/Purposes:
In this retrospective study, we investigated the clinical effect of oxycodone injection for pain management in spinal percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) surgery in terms of the analgesic effect, sedation, adverse reactions and patient satisfaction.
Methods:
A total of 100 patients who had previously undergone spinal PVP surgery were selected for a retrospective study from December 2022 to June 2024 including the oxycodone group (50 cases) and the sufentanil group (50 cases). The sufentanil group received 1 mg/kg propofol + 0.15ug/kg sufentanil as anesthetic, while the oxycodone group received 0.1 mg/kg oxycodone + 1 mg/kg propofol. The analgesic effects and safety of both groups were compared.
Results:
The intraoperative additional dose of propofol, MOAA/S score, and number of body movements of the oxycodone group were lower than the sufentanil group (p < 0.05); on postoperative day 1, the changes in SBP, DBP, HR, and SpO2 in the oxycodone group were lower than the sufentanil group (p < 0.05); 1 day and 3days after surgery, the oxycodone group had significantly lower VAS scores (p < 0.001); The oxycodone group showed significantly lower postoperative pain intensity compared with the sufentanil group. On postoperative day 1, mean VAS scores were 2.76 ± 0.82 in the oxycodone group and 4.30 ± 0.73 in the sufentanil group (P < 0.05). On postoperative day 3, VAS scores were 1.26 ± 0.44 vs. 2.04 ± 0.70, respectively (P < 0.05).
Conclusion:
Using oxycodone hydrochloride for intraoperative pain management in patients undergoing percutaneous vertebroplasty can effectively alleviate pain, maintain hemodynamic stability, improve intraoperative and postoperative analgesic effects, and has good safety, making it worth promoting.
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