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. 2020 Aug;34(4):629-641.
doi: 10.1007/s10877-019-00362-4. Epub 2019 Jul 20.

Does nociception monitor-guided anesthesia affect opioid consumption? A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Fleur S Meijer  1 , Marieke Niesters  1 , Monique van Velzen  1 , Chris H Martini  1 , Erik Olofsen  1 , Ruth Edry  2 , Daniel I Sessler  3 , Eveline L A van Dorp  1 , Albert Dahan  1 , Martijn Boon  4
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Does nociception monitor-guided anesthesia affect opioid consumption? A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Fleur S Meijer et al. J Clin Monit Comput. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

Monitors that estimate nociception during anesthesia may be used to guide opioid and other analgesics administration to optimize anesthesia care and possibly outcome. We reviewed the literature to evaluate current evidence of the effect of nociception-guided management over standard anesthesia practice during surgery. A systematic review of the literature on the effect of nociception monitoring on anesthesia practice was conducted. Reports were eligible if they compared nociception-guided anesthesia to standard practice during surgery. Primary endpoint of this review is intraoperative opioid consumption. Secondary endpoints included hemodynamic control, postoperative pain and pain treatment. We identified 12 randomized controlled trials that compared one of five different nociception monitoring techniques to standard anesthesia care. Most studies were single center studies of small sample size. Six studies reported intraoperative opioid consumption as primary outcome. There was considerable variability with respect to surgical procedure and anesthesia technique. For nociception monitors that were investigated by more than one study, analysis of the pooled data was performed. The surgical plethysmographic index was the only monitor for which an intra operative opioid sparing effect was found. For the other monitors, either no effect was detected, or pooled analysis could not be performed due to paucity of study data. On secondary outcomes, no consistent effect of nociception-guided anesthesia could be established. Although some nociception monitors show promising results, no definitive conclusions regarding the effect of nociception monitoring on intraoperative opioid consumption or other anesthesia related outcome can be drawn.Clinical trial number PROSPERO ID 102913.

Keywords: Nociception monitoring; Opioid consumption; Systematic review.

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Conflict of interest statement

AD received Speaker Fee from Medasense Biometrics Ltd. (Israel); RE and DIS serve on an Advisory Board for Medasense Biometrics Ltd. and have an Equity Interest in the company. Medasense is the Developer of the nociception level index. The other authors declare no competing interests.

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Flow diagram of the study selection process following the PubMed search on June 30, 2018
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Evaluation of bias in the selected 12 studies. a Risk of bias per study according to the domains defined in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 5.1.0 (http://handbook-5-1.cochrane.org). b Summary of bias per domain
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