Small Dose of Midazolam Added to Fentanyl-Ropivacaine for Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia After Subtotal Gastrectomy
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Anesth Pain Med 2008; 3: 22~26 ■임상연구■ Small Dose of Midazolam Added to Fentanyl-Ropivacaine for Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia after Subtotal Gastrectomy Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea Kyunghwa Kwak, M.D., Sioh Kim, M.D., Younghoon Jeon, M.D., Jeongwon Suh, M.D., Youngsoo Kim, M.D., Jaehyun Ha, M.D., and Soohyun Lee, M.D. Background: Midazolam has been reported to have a spinally addition, intrathecal co--administration of midazolam and fentanyl mediated antinociceptive effect. In this randomized, double-blind produced better analgesia than either drug alone without increa- study, we evaluated whether a small dose of midazolam added to sing side effect.7) Therefore, we hypothesized that the addition fentanyl-ropivacaine mixture for PCEA (patient controlled epidural analgesia) improves epidural analgesia in patients underwent of small dose of midazolam into opioid-local anesthetic for elective subtotal gastrectomy. PCEA (patient controlled epidural analgesia) could provide Methods: Forty five patients, ASA physical status I and II, under- better postoperative analgesia. Therefore, this prospective, going subtotal gastrectomy were randomly allocated to receive 0.2% ropivacaine mixed with fentanyl 4μg/ml or 0.2% ropivacaine mixed randomized, double-blind, controlled trial was designed to with fentanyl 4μg/ml and midazolam 0.2 mg/ml. The infusion rate evaluate the analgesic efficacy and side effect of midazolam was set to deliver 4 ml/hr of the study solution, with a bolus of 2 added to fentanyl-ropivacaine for PCEA in patients undergoing ml per demand and a 20 minutes lockout time. elective subtotal gastrectomy. Results: Infused volume (P < 0.05) and VAS scores (P < 0.05) was significantly lower in the patients receiving midazolam. However, there were no differences in requiring rescue analgesics, MATERIALS AND METHODS PONV (postoperative nausea and vomiting), sedation scores, urinary retention, and pruritus between groups. This prospective, randomized, controlled study was approved Conclusions: Small dose of midazolam could augment analgesia without adverse effects when added to thoracic epidural infusion by our Hospital Ethics Committee. We enrolled forty five of fentanyl and ropivacaine. (Anesth Pain Med 2008; 3: 22∼26) ASA physical status I and II patients who were diagnosed with gastric cancer, undergoing elective subtotal gastrectomy. Key Words: fentanyl, midazolam, patient controlled epidural anal- Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. gesia, ropivacaine. Patients who had a history of alcohol or drug abuse, who had psychiatric problems, or who had respiratory, hepatic, circula- tory or renal dysfunction were excluded. On the night before surgery, all patients were instructed to use the PCEA device. INTRODUCTION No premedication was given, and the anesthetic regimen and A short-acting water soluble benzodiazepine, midazolam has postoperative pain management were standardized in all pa- been used for sedation or anesthesia. In recent years, midazo- tients. In the operating room patients were placed in the sitting lam has been shown to improve analgesia when added to an position and an epidural catheter was inserted via 18-gauge 1-6) intrathecal or epidural administration of local anesthetic. In Tuohy needle at the T8-T9 interspace and was advanced 3-4 cm into the epidural space in a cephalad direction. A test dose of 2 ml of lidocaine 2% with epinephrine 5μg/ml was in- 논문접수일:2007년 10월 8일 jected to rule out intrathecal or intravascular position of the 책임저자:김시오, 대구시 중구 삼덕 2가 50번지 경북대학교병원 마취통증의학과, 우편번호: 700-721 catheter. Sensory block (by pin prick test) covering the area of Tel: 053-420-5875, Fax: 053-426-2760 the proposed incision was induced by injecting 8 to 12 ml of E-mail: [email protected] 0.375% ropivacaine. General anesthesia was induced with This research was supported by Kyungpook National University Research Fund, 2002. propofol (2 mg/kg) and rocuronium (1.0 mg/kg) and main- 22 Kyunghwa Kwak, et al:Midazolam in Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia 23 tained with 66% nitrous oxide in oxygen with a small Respiratory depression was defined as bradypnoeic episodes (a concentration (0.5-0.9%) of isoflurane. Within 30 minutes of ventilation frequency < 10/min) lasting > 10 minutes. A induction, a continuous epidural infusion of 0.375% ropivacaine sedation score 3 or respiratory depression was regarded as at 0.1 ml/kg/h was commenced. Ventilation was mechanically unacceptable complication in this context, and was to be controlled maintaining an end tidal carbon dioxide concen- assessed and reported by any health care personnel with the tration of 35 to 40 mmHg throughout surgery. No opioids subject then being switched to an alternate analgesic modality. were administered during surgery. An infusion of Ringer’s Occurrence of clinically relevant hemodynamic adverse events, solution (10 ml/kg/h) was given intravenously (i.v.) together including hypotension (systolic arterial blood pressure decrease with 4 mg boluses of ephedrine to maintain mean arterial < 90 mmHg) and bradycardia (heart rate decrease < 45 pressure within 20% of baseline values throughout surgery. At bpm), requiring treatment was recorded. In addition, patients the end of surgery, glycopyrrolate 7μg/kg and pyridostigmine were asked whether they had suffered from postoperative 30μg/ kg were administered i.v. for antagonism of residual nausea and vomiting (PONV), pruritus, urinary retention and neuromuscular blockade and the epidural infusion of 0.375% of any complication at any time point between the previous and ropivacaine was stopped. Postoperative pain relief was provided the present interview. PONV was scored on a three-stage (no, by using PCEA with a standard pump (Abbott Ambulatory feeling nauseated, retching or vomiting). Ⓡ Infusion Manager plus, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Based on our experience of the need for epidural solution USA). According to computer-generated random number table, for postoperative pain, we calculated that to detect a 22% patients were randomly to receive 0.2% ropivacaine mixed difference in consumption of ropivacaine and fentanyl, 20 patients with fentanyl 4μg/ml (group FR) or 0.2% ropivacaine mixed in each group were required to obtain a 0.05 level of alpha with with fentanyl 4μg/ml and midazolam 0.2 mg/ml (group a power of 0.8. MFR). Analgesic solutions were prepared by one of the Data are presented as mean ± SD or number (%). authors not taking further part in data collection and patient Demographic data, intraoperative ropivacaine usage, and care. All patients also blinded to the drugs of PCEA. The duration of surgery were analyzed using the unpaired t-test. PCEA infusion was set to deliver 4 ml/hr of the study Statistical methods included 2-way analysis of variance solution, with a bolus of 2 ml per demand and a 20 minutes (ANOVA) for VAS values and consumption of PCEA solution. lockout time. Nishiyama et al6) have demonstrated that adding Ordinary data were analyzed by using the contingency table midazolam (10 mg to 20 mg for 12 hours) to continuous analysis with Chi square test or Fisher’s exact tests. P < 0.05 epidural infusion of bupivacaine for postoperative pain provided was considered significant. a better analgesia than bupivacaine alone without deep sedative 6) effect. Therefore, based on a previous report, midazolam 0.2 RESULTS mg/ mL was chosen in our study. Assessments of pain, sedation, nausea, vomiting, pruritus, Of the 45 patients originally enrolled in the study, two and urinary retention as well as any noted side effects, were made at 2 and 6 hours after the end of surgery, and then at Table 1. Demographic Data, Intraoperative Usages of Ropivacaine, 08:00 and 20:00 on the first and second postoperative day by and Duration of Surgery a study-blinded anesthesiologist. Consumption of local Variables Group FR (n = 21) Group MFR (n = 21) anesthetic solution at 24, 48, 72 hours after operation was measured. The epidural catheter was removed on the third Age (yr) 57.1 ± 7.7 60.2 ± 7 postoperative day. Pain intensity scores during coughing were Sex (female/male) 13/8 11/10 Height (cm) 167.1 ± 4.4 168.4 ± 4.8 measured with a 100-mm visual analog scale (VAS). Rescue Weight (kg) 63.8 ± 8.2 62.8 ± 10.3 analgesia was provided with ketorolac 50 mg i.v if the pain Intraoperative ropivacaine (mg) 117.8 ± 17.9 111.9 ± 17.1 score was more than 4 or patient asked for rescue analgesics. Duration of surgery (min) 260.5 ± 37.6 249.1 ± 31.7 Sedation levels were assessed using a 4-point scale (0 = Values are expressed as means (SD) or numbers of patients. There awake, 1 = mildly sedated, easy to wake up when spoken to, were no significant differences between groups. Group FR: 0.2% 2 = moderately sedated, easy to wake up when slightly ropivacaine mixed with fentanyl 4μg/ml, Group MFR: 0.2% ropi- shaken, 3 = deep sedated, difficult to wake up when shaken). vacaine with fentanyl 4μg/ml and midazolam 0.2 mg/ml. 24 Anesth Pain Med Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008 Table 2. Consumption of Epidural Analgesic Solution and Side Effects Group FR (n = 21) Group MFR (n = 21) Infused volume of 423.8 ± 68.9 328.3 ± 34.2* PCEA solution (ml) Fentanyl consumption (μg) 1,695 ± 190.9 1,313.1 ± 136.7* Ropivacaine consumption (mg) 847.5 ± 95.4 656.6 ± 68.4* Patients requiring ketorolac 4 (19) 1 (5) PONV Absent 15 (71) 19 (90) Nausea 5 (24) 2 (10) Vomiting 1 (5) 0 Sedation (0/1/2/3) 19/2/0/0 17/4/0/0 Urinary retention 10 (48) 6 (29) Pruritus 9 (43) 5 (24) Fig. 1. Cumulative volume (ml) of epidurally administered study solutions. Group FR: 0.2% ropivacaine mixed with fentanyl 4μg/ml, Group MFR: Values are in mean ± SD or number (%) of patients.