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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2021 Jan;131(1):E63-E69.
doi: 10.1002/lary.28594. Epub 2020 Mar 2.

Effect of Intravenous Lidocaine Infusion on Postoperative Early Recovery Quality in Upper Airway Surgery

Qiao Wang  1   2 , Xiaojun Ding  1   2 , De Huai  3 , Weibing Zhao  4 , Jun Wang  2 , Chenglan Xie  2
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Effect of Intravenous Lidocaine Infusion on Postoperative Early Recovery Quality in Upper Airway Surgery

Qiao Wang et al. Laryngoscope. 2021 Jan.

Abstract

Objectives/hypothesis: Systemic infusions of lidocaine have been widely used as perioperative analgesic adjuvants. The aim of this randomized, double-blinded, controlled trial was to investigate the effect of perioperative lidocaine infusion on postoperative early recovery quality in upper airway surgery.

Study design: Prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial.

Methods: A total of 99 patients were randomly assigned to the lidocaine group (group L) or the control group (group C). The patients received 2 mg/kg lidocaine completed within 10 minutes before the induction of anesthesia followed by continuous infusions of 2 mg/kg/hr lidocaine (group L) or the same volume of 0.9% normal saline (group C) intravenously during anesthesia. The Quality of Recovery-40 (QoR-40) survey was administered on the preoperative day (Pre) and postoperative days 1 (POD1) and 2 (POD2). The primary endpoint was QoR-40 score on POD1 and POD2.

Results: Compared with Pre, global QoR-40 scores on POD1 and POD2 were significantly lower (P < .05). Compared with group C, global QoR-40 scores were significantly higher in group L on POD1 and POD2 (P < .05). Among the five dimensions of QoR-40, the scores for physical comfort, emotional state, and pain were superior in group L compared to group C (P < .05). Compared with group C, the consumption of remifentanil and diclofenac as well as the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) and postoperative 48-hour numeric rating scale (NRS) scores in group L were significantly lower (P < .05).

Conclusions: Systemic lidocaine infusion can improve QoR-40 scores in patients with upper airway surgery, reduce the dosage of intraoperative opioids, decrease the incidence of PONV and NRS scores 2 days after surgery, thus improving postoperative early recovery quality.

Level of evidence: 1b Laryngoscope, 131:E63-E69, 2021.

Keywords: Lidocaine; Quality of Recovery-40 questionnaire; postoperative nausea and vomiting; upper airway surgery.

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