lung cancer
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Tokyo Women's Medical University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Potential participants were patients aged 20 years or older who underwent lung resection for lung cancer by VATS under general anesthesia alone, and was given an intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IVPCA) for pain management in the postoperative acute phase in the Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital between January 2013 and December 2017.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Of the following patients, those judged inappropriate from the contents of the medical record were excluded from the subject patients. 1. Patients who had been taking the investigated analgesics prior to surgery; 2. Patients with confirmed pleural dissemination or chest wall invasion during surgery; 3. Patients who underwent reoperation or chest drainage for postoperative complications; 4. Patients in whom pain evaluation became difficult due to worsening of the general condition; 5. Patients who were prescribed analgesics for purposes other than postoperative analgesia during the observation period and whose duration of analgesic use was determined to be difficult to calculate; 6. Patients who were prescribed analgesics at other hospitals during the observation period and whose duration of analgesic use was determined to be difficult to calculate.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| the duration of analgesics administration after VATS | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactKatsuyuki Yamagata
Tokyo Womens' Medical University Department of Anesthesiology
Outcome results
None listed