Low rate of rescue epidural analgesia after open colorectal surgery with intrathecal morphine: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The use of intrathecal morphine in open colorectal surgery has been limited despite being a promising analgesic alternative used in other types of open abdominal surgery. Intrathecal morphine has a higher success rate than thoracic epidural analgesia, the current standard method of analgesia in open colorectal surgery. Intrathecal morphine is occasionally used in open colorectal surgery when thoracic epidural analgesia placement fails and in instances when patients receive intrathecal morphine for a planned laparoscopic surgical procedure which is converted to laparotomy intraoperatively. This retrospective single-centre cohort study aimed to evaluate outcomes after intrathecal morphine in patients undergoing open colorectal surgery.

Methods

All patients who received

SUBMITTER: de Brun S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11825571 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature