Table 5 Characteristics of patients receiving no intraoperative opioids (pre to post)
From: A multidisciplinary opioid-reduction pathway for robotic prostatectomy: outcomes at year one
Matched data | Pre (n = 68) | Post (n = 34) | Total (n = 102) | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | 62.0 (6.5) | 61.9 (6.8) | 62.0 (6.5) | 0.9518* |
Race | 0.7487† | |||
Black | 24 | 12 | 36 | |
Other | 7 | 2 | 9 | |
White | 37 | 20 | 57 | |
BMI | 28.7 (4.2) | 28.5 (5.1) | 28.7 (4.5) | 0.8647* |
BSA | 2.1 (0.2) | 2.1 (0.2) | 2.13 (0.19) | 0.8301‡ |
ASA score | 0.8382† | |||
1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
2 | 30 | 17 | 47 | |
3 | 36 | 17 | 53 | |
4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Smoker | 7 | 5 | 12 | 0.5280‡ |
Chronic pain (current) | 11 | 5 | 16 | 1‡ |
Chronic pain | 15 | 7 | 22 | 1‡ |
Anxiety | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1‡ |
Major depression | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.5512‡ |
Mood disorder | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Drug use disorder | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.3333‡ |
Opioid tolerant | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Sleep apnoea | 8 | 4 | 12 | 1‡ |
Hospital LOS (days) | 1.7 (1.6) | 1.3 (0.9) | 1.6 (1.4) | .0583* |
Post-op antiemetics | ||||
Any (Y/N) | 35 | 9 | 44 | .0163† |
Average no. of doses | 1.1 (1.7) | 0.4 (0.9) | 0.8 (1.5) | .0084* |
Post-op opioids (OME) | 62.4 (62.9) 39.3 [14.85, 93.53] | 32.7 (27.7) 36.45 [12.97, 54.08] | 53.5 (55.1) 37.8 [14.4, 73.88] | 0.1172* |
Recovery room stay (minutes) | 253 (270) | 167 (105) | 225 (233) | .0282* |
Average pain score | ||||
In PACU | 3.8 [2, 5.2] | 4 [2.9, 5.5] | 0.425* | |
On ward | 3.4 [2.1, 4.6] | 3.4 [2.4, 4.5] | 0.817* | |