Effect of intrathecal morphine and epidural analgesia on postoperative recovery after abdominal surgery for gynecologic malignancy: an open-label randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to determine whether regional analgesia with intrathecal morphine (ITM) in an enhanced recovery programme (enhanced recovery after surgery [ERAS]) gives a shorter hospital stay with good pain relief and equal health-related quality of life (QoL) to epidural analgesia (EDA) in women after midline laparotomy for proven or assumed gynaecological malignancies.

Design

An open-label, randomised, single-centre study.

Setting

A tertiary referral Swedish university hospital.

Participants

Eighty women, 18-70 years of age, American Society of Anesthesiologists I and II, admitted consecutively to the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Interventions

The women were allocated (1:1) to either the standard analgesic method at the clinic (EDA) o

SUBMITTER: Kjolhede P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6430030 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature