29 April 2022: Clinical Research
Evaluation of a Precision Approach to Intraoperative Ropivacaine Nerve Block to Improve Postoperative Analgesia in 120 Patients Undergoing Thyroid Surgery
Yong Wang 1B* , Jiankang Shen 1BCFG* , Rongli Xie 1AE , Dan Tan 1E , Xiaoli Jin 1BCD , Liang Shen 2BCD* , Jianming Yuan 1ABCDEF*DOI: 10.12659/MSM.935563
Med Sci Monit 2022; 28:e935563
Table 1 The effect of precision intraoperative ropivacaine nerve block on postoperative pain. The collected clinic-pathological characteristics of enrolled patients were as follows: age, sex, operation time, pathological diagnosis, and scope of operation, and visual analogue scale (VAS) score.
| Precision group | Traditional group | Control group | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 37.2±10.9 | 35.6±8.7 | 36.8±9.0 | 0.826 | |
| Sex | Male | 9 | 10 | 8 | 0.866 |
| Female | 31 | 30 | 32 | ||
| Operation time | 95.6±15.3 | 101.5±18.3 | 94.3±12.6 | 0.750 | |
| Diagnosis | Benign | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0.946 |
| Malignant | 32 | 33 | 33 | ||
| Scope | Unilateral | 25 | 27 | 25 | 0.865 |
| Bilateral | 15 | 13 | 15 | ||
| VAS | 2 h | 1.4±0.5 | 1.6±0.7 | 2.8±1.0 | |
| 6 h | 1.0±0.5 | 1.2±0.6 | 2.6±1.1 | ||
| 24 h | 0.7±0.3 | 0.6±0.4 | 1.9±1.1 | ||