Benefit of epidural analgesia for postoperative pain control after a Kasai Portoenterostomy: A ten-year retrospective cohort study.
Kasai portoenterostomy
infant postoperative pain management
thoracic epidural analgesia
Journal
Paediatric anaesthesia
ISSN: 1460-9592
Titre abrégé: Paediatr Anaesth
Pays: France
ID NLM: 9206575
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2023
02 2023
Historique:
revised:
24
09
2022
received:
04
11
2021
accepted:
18
10
2022
pubmed:
22
10
2022
medline:
5
1
2023
entrez:
21
10
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Biliary atresia is a rare obstructive cholangiopathy that presents in infants. The Kasai portoenterostomy procedure, which reestablishes biliary drainage into the intestine, is a surgical procedure that has been found to improve survival with the native liver. The options for postoperative analgesia include systemic opioids and epidural analgesia. The primary objective of this study was to compare the postoperative systemic opioids used in morphine equivalents (mg/kg) on postoperative days 0 through 3 between patients who underwent a Kasai portoenterostomy and received a thoracic epidural infusion to those without thoracic epidural analgesia. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 91 infants with biliary atresia undergoing a Kasai portoenterostomy between January 1, 2009, and September 1, 2019, at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Sixty-three of the 91 patients (69%) had a continuous epidural catheter placed intraoperatively for postoperative analgesia. The total opioid requirement (morphine equivalents) for the first 72 h in the epidural group of (Mean (95% confidence interval): 0.52 mg/kg (0.38, 0.67 mg/kg) was lower than the non-epidural group (Mean (95% confidence interval): 1.15 mg/kg (0.8, 1.48 mg//kg) for a difference in mean opioid requirement (95% confidence interval) of 0.63 mg/kg (0.32, 0.94 mg/kg). Patients in the non-epidural group had higher rates of unplanned ICU admissions (36% non-epidural group vs. 3.3% epidural group, difference in proportion (95% confidence interval) 32.7% (13, 52%), p < .01). A higher percentage of patients in the non-epidural group had a postoperative oxygen requirement (32.1% vs. 11.3%, difference in proportion (95% confidence interval) 21% (2, 40%), p = .02). In our cohort study, continuous thoracic epidural analgesia in patients undergoing a Kasai portoenterostomy was associated with lower postoperative opioid use. We also observed that the epidural group had a lower ICU admission rate and a lower rate of postoperative supplemental oxygen requirement over the first three postoperative days.
Substances chimiques
Analgesics, Opioid
0
Morphine
76I7G6D29C
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
154-159Informations de copyright
© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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