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- U Kondo, S Yokota, M Nonogaki, K Nishiwaki, T Kimura, T Komatsu, and Y Shimada.
- Department of Anesthesiology, Nagoya University School of Medicine.
- Masui. 1997 Aug 1;46(8):1078-84.
AbstractPostoperative analgesia by continuous epidural morphine infusion after spinal surgery was investigated in a retrospective study. An epidural catheter was placed by surgeons at the time of surgery. Postoperative pain was less intense and use of analgesics and sedative was less frequent in patients with continuous epidural morphine (n = 41) as compared with patients without continuous epidural morphine (n = 41). Among the patients with continuous epidural morphine, postoperative pain in patients (n = 16) with the dura opened or dural rent during surgery was less intense and the uses of analgesics and sedative was less frequent as compared with patients (n = 25) without the dural rent. There were no severe complications except for respiratory depression in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Our study demonstrated the ease of insertion of an epidural catheter at the time of surgery and the good quality of epidural analgesia after spinal surgery.
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