Comparison of post-spinal back pain after midline versus paramedian approaches for urologic surgeries

Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology

Babak Gharaei¹  Mohammad Hassan Bigdeli¹  Payman Dadkhah¹  Ali Solhpour¹  Masoud Hashemi¹ 

[1] Anesthesiology Department, Labbafinejad Hospital, Anesthesiology Research, Center, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: Back pain;    Spinal anesthesia;    Lithotomy position;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s42077-020-00088-5

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionLow back pain after spinal anesthesia is of concern in lithotomy position. During our study, low back pain in both midline and paramedian approaches after spinal anesthesia in lithotomy position was compared.Material and methodsSpinal anesthesia was performed by two approaches of midline and paramedian by an expert. The midline at middle line and paramedian at 1 cm inferior and 1 cm lateral to the spinous process performed with the needle type of Quincke 25G. The severity of back pain in patients was measured with numerical rating scale method by an anesthesiology assistant 24 and 72 h and a week after surgery.ResultsA total of 139 patients were studied. After 24 h, back pain in the midline group was 21% and in the paramedian group was 25.4%, respectively. There were no significant differences between them. In the first 24 h, the only significant variable was the number of tries. In patients with ≥ 2 times of tries for performing spinal anesthesia, multivariate analysis of patients showed back pain to be 4.7 times more common compared to single try (OR 4.70, CI 1.79–10.18; p = 0.001).ConclusionThere were no significant differences between the two methods of midline and paramedian approaches after spinal anesthesia in the incidence of back pain. However, two or more times of tries compared with one time try had increased risk of low back pain.

【 授权许可】

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