Propofol Versus Sevoflurane Recovery After Gynecological Surgery

Summary

80% of 25 million American who undergo surgery describe moderate to severe pain. The use of multimodal analgesic techniques can attenuate patient's postoperative pain and several different medication have been found to be effective. Pain can significantly affect patient's quality of recovery after surgery. Volatile anesthetics can increase sensitivity to pain at the low concentrations present on emergence from anesthesia. Propofol may have analgesic effect at sedative doses. The effects of propofol,when used for anesthesia maintenance, on postoperative pain have demonstrated controversial results with some investigators showing a potential benefit whereas others have not shown any benefit. Propofol for maintenance of anesthesia has been advocated as an strategy for high risk patients even though it has shown controversial results on reduction of Post operative nausea and vomiting. A comparison of propofol vs.volatile anesthetic in regards to the time required by patients to meet discharge criteria has also shown conflicting results.The QOR 40 is a validated instrument that has been specifically developed to evaluate patients recovery after anesthesia and surgery. The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of maintenance of anesthesia with two agents (Propofol and Sevoflurane) on quality of recovery after ambulatory surgery Significance: the results of this study can lead to the discovery of an anesthesia technique that is associated with a better recovery for patients after ambulatory surgery. Research question is: do patients anesthetized with propofol have a better quality of recovery after ambulatory anesthesia than patients anesthetized with Sevoflurane? The hypothesis: patients anesthetized with propofol will have better quality of recovery than patients anesthetized with Sevoflurane after ambulatory surgery.

Timeline

Start

2012-11

Primary completion

2014-04

Completion

2014-04

Publications

• Background White PF, Kehlet H. Improving postoperative pain management: what are the unresolved issues? Anesthesiology. 2010 Jan;112(1):220-5. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181c6316e. No abstract available.
• Background White PF. The changing role of non-opioid analgesic techniques in the management of postoperative pain. Anesth Analg. 2005 Nov;101(5 Suppl):S5-S22. doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000177099.28914.A7.
• Background Zhang Y, Eger EI 2nd, Dutton RC, Sonner JM. Inhaled anesthetics have hyperalgesic effects at 0.1 minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration. Anesth Analg. 2000 Aug;91(2):462-6. doi: 10.1097/00000539-200008000-00044.
• Background Hand R Jr, Riley GP, Nick ML, Shott S, Faut-Callahan M. The analgesic effects of subhypnotic doses of propofol in human volunteers with experimentally induced tourniquet pain. AANA J. 2001 Dec;69(6):466-70.
• Background Cheng SS, Yeh J, Flood P. Anesthesia matters: patients anesthetized with propofol have less postoperative pain than those anesthetized with isoflurane. Anesth Analg. 2008 Jan;106(1):264-9, table of contents. doi: 10.1213/01.ane.0000287653.77372.d9.
• Background Boccara G, Mann C, Pouzeratte Y, Bellavoir A, Rouvier A, Colson P. Improved postoperative analgesia with isoflurane than with propofol anaesthesia. Can J Anaesth. 1998 Sep;45(9):839-42. doi: 10.1007/BF03012216.
• Background Visser K, Hassink EA, Bonsel GJ, Moen J, Kalkman CJ. Randomized controlled trial of total intravenous anesthesia with propofol versus inhalation anesthesia with isoflurane-nitrous oxide: postoperative nausea with vomiting and economic analysis. Anesthesiology. 2001 Sep;95(3):616-26. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200109000-00012.
• Background Watson KR, Shah MV. Clinical comparison of 'single agent' anaesthesia with sevoflurane versus target controlled infusion of propofol. Br J Anaesth. 2000 Oct;85(4):541-6. doi: 10.1093/bja/85.4.541.
• Background Rohm KD, Piper SN, Suttner S, Schuler S, Boldt J. Early recovery, cognitive function and costs of a desflurane inhalational vs. a total intravenous anaesthesia regimen in long-term surgery. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2006 Jan;50(1):14-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2006.00905.x.
• Background Montes FR, Trillos JE, Rincon IE, Giraldo JC, Rincon JD, Vanegas MV, Charris H. Comparison of total intravenous anesthesia and sevoflurane-fentanyl anesthesia for outpatient otorhinolaryngeal surgery. J Clin Anesth. 2002 Aug;14(5):324-8. doi: 10.1016/s0952-8180(02)00367-7.
• Background Myles PS, Weitkamp B, Jones K, Melick J, Hensen S. Validity and reliability of a postoperative quality of recovery score: the QoR-40. Br J Anaesth. 2000 Jan;84(1):11-5. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bja.a013366.
• De Oliveira GS Jr, Bialek J, Rodes ME, Kendall MC, McCarthy RJ. The effect of sevoflurane compared to propofol maintenance on post-surgical quality of recovery in patients undergoing an ambulatory gynecological surgery: A prospective, randomized, double-blinded, controlled, clinical trial. J Clin Anesth. 2017 Dec;43:70-74. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2017.10.001. Epub 2017 Oct 13.

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