Use of therapeutic caffeine in acute care postoperative and critical care settings: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Caffeine is the most utilised psychoactive drug worldwide. However, caffeine withdrawal and the therapeutic use of caffeine in intensive care and in the perioperative period have not been well summarised. Our objective was to conduct a scoping review of caffeine withdrawal and use in the intensive care unit (ICU) and postoperative patients.

Methods

PubMed, Embase, CINAHL Complete, Scopus and Web of Science were systematically searched for studies investigating the effects of caffeine withdrawal or administration in ICU patients and in the perioperative period. Areas of recent systematic review such as pain or post-dural puncture headache were not included in this review. Studies were limited to adults.

Results

Of 2268 articles screened, 26 were included and

SUBMITTER: Bright M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011218 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature