• BMC anesthesiology · Jan 2023

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Analysis of the association of sugammadex with the length of hospital stay in patients undergoing abdominal surgery: a retrospective study.

    • Jing Tan, Jianhua He, Lijun Wang, Jia Fang, Pengyi Li, Zhenghuan Song, and Qingming Bian.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital & Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research & The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 42 Baizi Pavilion, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.
    • BMC Anesthesiol. 2023 Jan 25; 23 (1): 3232.

    BackgroundSugammadex is a newer medication used for rapid and reliable reversal of neuromuscular blockade. This study evaluated whether sugammadex could reduce the length of postoperative hospital stay in patients undergoing abdominal surgery.MethodsThis single center retrospective cohort study included patients who underwent major abdominal surgery between January 2015 and October 2019. Patients were randomized according to reversal with sugammadex or spontaneous recovery. The primary outcome was length of postoperative hospital stay. The secondary outcomes were length of post-anesthetic care unit (PACU) stay, postoperative ambulation time, time-to-first-defecation, and incidence of pulmonary complications. After 1:1 propensity score matching, univariate and multiple linear regression analyses estimated the differences in outcomes.ResultsOf the 1614 patients, 517 received sugammadex and 645 spontaneously recovered. After adjusting for potential confounders, non-linear relationship was detected between administration of sugammadex and the length of postoperative hospital stay (β = 0.29 95% confidence interval {CI}: [- 1.13, - 0.54], P = 0.4912). However, it was associated with shorter PACU stay (β = - 20.30 95% CI: [- 24.48, - 17.11], P < 0.0001), shorter time to postoperative ambulation movement (β = - 0.43 95% CI: [- 0.62, - 0.23], P < 0.0001), and reduced time-to-first-defecation (β = - 2.25 95% CI: [- 0.45, - 0.05], P = 0.0129), when compared to the spontaneously recovered group. The incidence of pneumonia in the sugammadex group was significantly lower than that in the spontaneously recovered group (18.6% [44/237] vs. 39.2% [93/237] P < 0.05).ConclusionsNeuromuscular blockade reversal with sugammadex after abdominal surgery demonstrated an excellent recovery profile and was associated with decreased risk of pneumonia, although it did not affect the length of postoperative hospital stay.© 2023. The Author(s).

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