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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2001, Vol. 87, No. 4 577-583
© 2001 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Clinical Investigations

Effect of peri- and postoperative epidural anaesthesia on pain and gastrointestinal function after abdominal hysterectomy

H. Jørgensen1, J. S. Fomsgaard1, J. Dirks1, J. Wetterslev1, B. Andreasson2 and J. B. Dahl1

1Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Herlev University Hospital, Copenhagen County, Denmark*Corresponding author

{dagger} LMA is the property of Intavent Limited.

In a double blind study we have investigated the effects of epidural local anaesthesia (LA), when added to general anaesthesia (GA) and postoperative paracetamol and NSAID, on postoperative pain and gastrointestinal function in patients undergoing open hysterectomy. Sixty patients were randomized into three study groups: GA, and postoperative paracetamol and NSAID (GA, n=20); GA, paracetamol, NSAID, intraoperative epidural lidocaine and 24-h postoperative epidural saline (Saline, n=20); or GA, paracetamol, NSAID, intraoperative epidural lidocaine and 24-h postoperative epidural bupivacaine (Bupi, n=20). Patients were observed for 72 h postoperatively. Pain at rest, during cough, and mobilization, request for supplementary morphine, and time to first postoperative flatus, was reduced in patients receiving 24-h postoperative epidural anaesthesia, compared with the two other groups. However, these effects of epidural LA, were not sustained beyond the period of infusion, and no differences in PONV, time to first postoperative defecation, mobilization or time to discharge from hospital were observed between groups. A 24 h postoperative epidural infusion with bupivacaine, when added to postoperative paracetamol and NSAID, reduces pain and opioid requirements, but has only limited effects on gastrointestinal function and patient recovery.

Br J Anaesth 2001; 87: 577–83


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