Hospital Practices and Research

Assessment of Inflammatory Markers in the Epidural Infusion of Bupivacaine-Fentanyl Compared to Morphine Bolus Injection in Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgeries

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Seyed Jalal Madani
Majid Saeedi
Mohammad Saeed Gheasi
Masoud Saghafinia
Seyed Mohammad Reza Amouzegar
Ali Bahramifar
Vahid Shahkarami

Trauma Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.34172/hpr.2020.21
Abstract
Background: Gastrointestinal surgery is one of the procedures that result to produce inflammatory reactions and pain to patients. Administrate of high-safe analgesia in surgery is very essential, to reduce pain and improve inflammatory reactions.
Objectives: The present study compared inflammatory markers and pain relief with the epidural infusion of bupivacaine-fentanyl and intravenous morphine bolus in gastrointestinal cancer surgeries.
Methods: This randomized control clinical trial study was carried out from December 2018 to October 2020, on ASA I and II patients aged between 30-80 years who referred for gastrointestinal cancer surgery. Cases were randomly distributed into two groups. Group I received epidural catheter with bupivacaine (18 cases), and group II received fentanyl and morphine bolus injection (18 cases). On the first and second days post-operation, data on pain scores based on visual analogue scale (VAS) score, inflammatory markers (procalcitonin [PCT] and C-reactive protein [CRP]), platelet (PLT), white blood cells (WBCs), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was recorded.
Results: The mean age was 52.21±16.13 years (41.6% male, 58.4 female). The mean of ESR, CRP and PCT postoperative were significantly higher than preoperative (P < 0.05). There were no differences between the two groups regarding PLT, ESR, CRP, and PCT preoperative postoperative (P > 0.05). The mean of pain was less in the epidural group than in the morphine group postoperative (P = 0.02).
Conclusion: The results showed that epidural fentanyl-bupivacaine infusion was more effective in pain reduction than the intravenous infusion of morphine in cases undergoing gastrointestinal cancer operation. However, both analgesic approaches were similar in inflammatory functions.

Keywords

Inflammatory Biomarker
Pain
Epidural Analgesic
Morphine
Hospital Practices and Research
Volume 5, Issue 3 - Serial Number 19
Summer 2020
Pages 112-116

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