Efficacy of Postoperative Epidural Anesthesia Following Abdominoplasty (EDA)

Klinik Bogenhausen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Abdominoplasty; Anesthesia

Treatments: Procedure: Epidural anesthesia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05822882

EDA following Abdominoplasty

Details and patient eligibility

About

Effective postoperative pain management is essential for patient satisfaction and therefore intraoperative regional nerve blocks have become more and more popular in abdominoplasties. However, the key disadvantage of these blocks are their limited duration of action. This observational study evaluates the effects of a longer- lasting, individualized epidural analgesia using a pain pump to better classify the clinical value of this procedure.

Full description

This work reviews the digital medical charts of patients who underwent selective abdominoplasty without additive surgical procedures within a period of 4 years. Evaluated data comprise the postoperative analgesia regimen, including on-demand medication, mobilization time, inpatient length of stay, and clinical outcome. The patients were grouped by the presence of an epidural catheter.

Enrollment: 112 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who underwent abdominoplasty

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who underwent abdominoplasty combined with additional intraoperative procedures (e.g., liposuction, hernia repair) were excluded

Trial design

112 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients with epidural anesthesia

Description:

Patients following Abdominoplasty with postoperative epidural anesthesia via pain catheter

Treatment:

Procedure: Epidural anesthesia

Patients without epidural anesthesia

Description:

Patients following Abdominoplasty without postoperative epidural anesthesia