• Liqing Yang, Shuai Du, and Yuefeng Sun.
• Department of Orthopedics, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, China. Electronic address: yanglq@sj-hospital.org.
• Int J Surg. 2017 Nov 1; 47: 135-146.

BackgroundThis meta-analysis aimed to perform a meta-analysis to investigate the impact of additional intravenous acetaminophen for pain management after total joint arthroplasty (TJA).MethodsWe conducted electronic searches of Medline (1966-2017.07), PubMed (1966-2017.07), Embase (1980-2017.07), ScienceDirect (1985-2017.07) and the Cochrane Library. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and non-RCTs were included. The quality assessments were performed according to the Cochrane systematic review method. The primary outcomes were postoperative pain scores and opioid consumption. Meta-analysis was performed using Stata 11.0 software.ResultsA total of four studies were retrieved involving 865 participants. The present meta-analysis indicated that there were significant differences between groups in terms of pain scores at POD 1 (WMD = -0.954, 95% CI: -1.204 to -0.703, P = 0.000), POD 2 (WMD = -1.072, 95% CI: -2.072 to -0.073, P = 0.000), and POD 3 (WMD = -0.883, 95% CI: -1.142 to -0.624, P = 0.000). Significant differences were found regarding opioid consumption at POD 1 (WMD = -3.144, 95% CI: -4.142 to -2.146, P = 0.000), POD 2 (WMD = -5.665, 95% CI: -7.383 to -3.947, P = 0.000), and POD 3 (WMD = -3.563, 95% CI: -6.136 to -0.991, P = 0.007).ConclusionAdditional intravenous acetaminophen to multimodal analgesia could significantly reduce pain and opioid consumption after total joint arthroplasty with fewer adverse effects. Higher quality RCTs are required for further research.Copyright © 2017 IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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