The purpose of this study was to investigate whether perioperative use of low doses of opioids could reduce postoperative delirium .
Postoperative delirium (POD) is a common postoperative complication of the elderly caused by a variety of factors. POD is an acute neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by disturbance of attention consciousness and cognitive function fluctuation, and more than 40% of elderly patients have symptoms of hypoactivity POD.The incidence of POD is as high as 17% to 61% in patients with neurocognitive impairment and patients undergoing complex or emergency surgery, which usually occurs between 1 and 3 days after surgery. POD will lead to prolonged hospital stay, functional impairment and even death. How to prevent and treat POD is an urgent clinical problem to be solved at present. Opiates are commonly used perioperative sedatives and analgesics, which may be associated with the occurrence of postoperative POD in elderly patients and increase the risk of POD. It is not clear whether perioperative use of low doses of opioids could reduces the incidence of POD in elderly patients. In this study, reducing-opioids anesthesia was defined as the use of 1/3 of the conventional opioid dose to observe whether reducing-opioids anesthesia affected the incidence of POD in elderly patients undergoing gastric cancer surgery
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
130
Intraoperative loading dose of sufentanil 0.6μg/kg, each additional hour 10μg, within one hour of the end of surgery to stop additional.Postoperative analgesia pump formula: sufentanil 150ug + 0.75% ropivacaine 60ml with 0.9% saline diluted to 220ml, 3ml
Intraoperative epidural analgesia was performed with 0.5% ropivacaine 5-20 ml,Postoperative analgesia pump formula:0.75% ropivacaine 60ml with 0.9% saline diluted to 220ml, 3ml/h, Blos 3ml, locking time 15min, the maximum dose of 36ml in 4 hours Saline is used to dilute other drugs
Intraoperative and postoperative analgesia
Zhejiang Cancer Hospital
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Incidence of postoperative delirium
confusion assessment method for the ICU(CAM-ICU)
Time frame: 3 days after surgery
Incidence of postoperative delirium
Richmond agitation and sedation scale(RASS), the RASS score was divided into 10 sedation scales, ranging from +4 to -5, representing the patient's degree from "aggressive" to "unconscious," with each score corresponding to a state of consciousness. When the RASS score was ≥-3, the CAM-ICU assessment was performed.
Time frame: 3 days after surgery
Visual analogue scale(VAS)
VAS is a scale of 11 numbers ranging from 0 to 10, with 0 representing no pain and 10 representing the most pain. Patients choose one of the 11 numbers to represent the pain level according to their own pain. 0: no pain; Less than 3 points: mild pain, tolerable; 4-6 points: the patient's pain and affect sleep, still tolerable; 7-10: Patients have increasing pain, pain is unbearable, affect appetite, affect sleep.
Time frame: 3 days after surgery
Anaesthesia related adverse event
Nausea and vomiting
Time frame: 3 days after surgery
blood pressure
Hypertension or hypotension was defined as an increase or decrease in mean arterial pressure of more than 30% at baseline
Time frame: 3 days after surgery
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