Factors that Affect Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia for Postoperative Pain Following Orthognathic Surgery for Mandibular Prognathism

Yoshinori Aoki, Kaori Yoshida, Daisuke Nishizawa, Shinya Kasai, Tatsuya Ichinohe, Kazutaka Ikeda and Ken-ichi Fukuda

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 6, 1-5

Abstract: The predictors of postoperative pain and analgesic consumption were previously found to include preoperative pain, anxiety, age, type of surgery, and genotype, but remaining unclear was whether intraoperative factors could predict postoperative pain. In the present study, we investigated the time-course of fentanyl consumption using intravenous patient-controlled analgesia records from patients who underwent orthognathic surgery for mandibular prognathism and analyzed the influence of anesthesia methods and surgical methods together with sex on the time course. A significant difference in the time course of fentanyl administration was found (P

Date: 2014
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