Acute pain management after thoracoscopic lung resection: a systematic review and explorative meta-analysis

Author:

Spaans Louisa N1ORCID,Bousema Jelle E1,Meijer Patrick2,Bouwman R A (Arthur)3,van den Broek Renee3,Mourisse Jo4,Dijkgraaf Marcel G W5,Verhagen Ad F T M6,van den Broek Frank J C1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Surgery, Máxima Medical Center , Veldhoven, Netherlands

2. Department of Anesthesiology, Máxima Medical Center , Veldhoven, Netherlands

3. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Catharina Hospital , Eindhoven, Netherlands

4. Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center , Nijmegen, Netherlands

5. Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam, Netherlands

6. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center , Nijmegen, Netherlands

Abstract

AbstractOBJECTIVESPain after thoracoscopic surgery may increase the incidence of postoperative complications and impair recovery. Guidelines lack consensus regarding postoperative analgesia. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the mean pain scores of different analgesic techniques (thoracic epidural analgesia, continuous or single-shot unilateral regional analgesia and only systemic analgesia) after thoracoscopic anatomical lung resection.METHODSMedline, Embase and Cochrane databases were searched until 1 October 2022. Patients undergoing at least >70% anatomical resections through thoracoscopy reporting postoperative pain scores were included. Due to a high inter-study variability an explorative meta-analysis next to an analytic meta-analysis was performed. The quality of evidence has been evaluated using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation system.RESULTSA total of 51 studies comprising 5573 patients were included. Mean 24, 48 and 72 h pain scores with 95% confidence interval on a 0–10 scale were calculated. Length of hospital stay, postoperative nausea and vomiting, additional opioids and the use of rescue analgesia were analysed as secondary outcomes. A common-effect size was estimated with an extreme high heterogeneity for which pooling of the studies was not appropriate. An exploratory meta-analysis demonstrated acceptable mean pain scores of Numeric Rating Scale <4 for all analgesic techniques.CONCLUSIONSThis extensive literature review and attempt to pool mean pain scores for meta-analysis demonstrates that unilateral regional analgesia is gaining popularity over thoracic epidural analgesia in thoracoscopic anatomical lung resection, despite great heterogeneity and limitations of current studies precluding such recommendations.PROSPERO REGISTRATIONID number 205311

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Oxford University Press (OUP)

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