British journal of anaesthesia
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Editorial Randomized Controlled Trial
Critical appraisal of randomised trials assessing regional analgesic interventions for knee arthroplasty: implications for postoperative pain guidelines development.
Guidelines are increasingly being used for clinical decision-making. Such guidelines are usually based on meta-analyses, which are generally derived from RCTs. ⋯ Analyses of RCTs assessing analgesic efficacy of advanced regional analgesic techniques in knee arthroplasty show that the majority of trials do not include a package of basic analgesics such as paracetamol, NSAIDs or cyclooxygenase-2 specific inhibitors, dexamethasone, and local infiltration analgesia in the comparator group. Consequently, the current approach to analyse meta-analyses of pain interventions is not optimal, and may lead to inadequate or inappropriate conclusions and clinical guidance.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Intraoperative lidocaine infusion in patients undergoing pancreatectomy for pancreatic cancer: a mechanistic, multicentre randomised clinical trial.
Intravenous lidocaine has been postulated to improve long-term survival after surgery for pancreatic cancer through anti-inflammatory effects, anti-tumour effects, or both. We investigated whether intraoperative lidocaine improves survival after pancreatectomy for pancreatic cancer and whether lidocaine modified the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), high levels of which are associated with poor prognosis. ⋯ NCT03245346; updated in Chi-CTR-2000035469.
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Women are less likely than men to receive some emergency treatments. This study examines whether the effect of tranexamic acid (TXA) on mortality in trauma patients varies by sex and whether the receipt of TXA by trauma patients varies by sex. ⋯ Administration of TXA to patients with bleeding trauma reduces mortality to a similar extent in women and men, but women are substantially less likely to be treated with TXA.
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Observational Study
Intraoperative opioids are associated with decreased recurrence rates in colon adenocarcinoma: a retrospective observational cohort study.
Opioid-induced immunomodulation may be important in colon adenocarcinoma, where tumour DNA mismatch repair (MMR) can determine the level of immune activation with consequences for therapeutic response and prognosis. We evaluated the relationship between intraoperative opioid exposure, MMR subtype, and oncological outcomes after surgery for colon adenocarcinoma. ⋯ Higher intraoperative opioid dose was associated with a lower risk of tumour recurrence after surgery for stage I-III colon adenocarcinoma, but particularly so in tumours in which DNA MMR was deficient.