Intrathecal diamorphine for perioperative analgesia during colorectal surgery: a cross-sectional survey of current UK practice.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe current UK clinical practice around the use of intrathecal diamorphine as analgesia for major elective laparoscopic colorectal surgery.

Design

Online self-administered survey.

Setting

Acute public hospitals in the UK (National Health Service - NHS) .

Participants

Consultant anaesthetists involved in colorectal surgery lists.

Main outcome measures

Rate of intrathecal opioids used by anaesthetists for elective laparoscopic colorectal procedures; minimum, most common and maximum doses of intrathecal diamorphine used, timing of administration of intrathecal injection, and relationship between the number of patients anaesthetised for laparoscopic colorectal resections per month by each anaesthetist, and the doses of intrathecal diamorph

SUBMITTER: Alderman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9394208 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature