Efficacy of the intraoperative opioid-sparing anesthesia on quality of patients' recovery in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to explore the impact of opioid-sparing anesthesia on patients' quality of recovery after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). We tested the primary hypothesis that our predefined opioid-sparing anesthesia provides better quality of patients' recovery compared to routine anesthesia in VATS.

Methods

Patients between 18 and 70 years, scheduled for elective VATS, had an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class I-III under general anesthesia, were randomly allocated to: routine anesthesia group and opioid-sparing anesthesia group. Patients in the opioid-sparing anesthesia group were mainly given preoperative thoracic paravertebral blockade with intraoperative withholding longer acting opioids. Patients in routine anesthesia group received opi

SUBMITTER: Qiu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9344409 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature