Postoperative Pain Therapy With Hydromorphone Using TCI-PCA

Summary

Treatment of postoperative pain with hydromorphone (a strong analgesic) using patient-controlled analgesia with target concentrations in blood compared to conventional patient-controlled analgesia after planed cardiac surgery

Timeline

Start

2013-12

Primary completion

2015-04

Completion

2015-04

Publications

• Background Jeleazcov C, Saari TI, Ihmsen H, Mell J, Frohlich K, Krajinovic L, Fechner J, Schuttler J. Population pharmacokinetic modeling of hydromorphone in cardiac surgery patients during postoperative pain therapy. Anesthesiology. 2014 Feb;120(2):378-91. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3182a76d05.
• Wehrfritz A, Ihmsen H, Fuchte T, Kim M, Kremer S, Weiss A, Schuttler J, Jeleazcov C. Postoperative pain therapy with hydromorphone; comparison of patient-controlled analgesia with target-controlled infusion and standard patient-controlled analgesia: A randomised controlled trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2020 Dec;37(12):1168-1175. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001360.
• Ihmsen H, Rohde D, Schuttler J, Jeleazcov C. External Validation of a Recently Developed Population Pharmacokinetic Model for Hydromorphone During Postoperative Pain Therapy. Eur J Drug Metab Pharmacokinet. 2017 Feb;42(1):17-28. doi: 10.1007/s13318-015-0318-x.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.