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. 2022 Jun;88(6):2591-2604.
doi: 10.1111/bcp.15241. Epub 2022 Feb 7.

Postoperative administration of ketorolac compared to other drugs for pain control after third molar surgery: A meta-analysis of double-blind, randomized, clinical trials

Mario Alberto Isiordia-Espinoza  1 , Ángel Josabad Alonso-Castro  2 , Nicolás Serafín-Higuera  3 , Demian Ismael Castañeda-Santana  4 , Maximiliano de la Rosa Coronado  5 , Ronell Eduardo Bologna-Molina  6
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Postoperative administration of ketorolac compared to other drugs for pain control after third molar surgery: A meta-analysis of double-blind, randomized, clinical trials

Mario Alberto Isiordia-Espinoza et al. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2022 Jun.
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Abstract

Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the analgesic effectiveness and adverse reactions of ketorolac in comparison with other drugs when administered postoperatively after third molar surgery.

Methods: PubMed and Google Scholar were utilized to search for articles comparing the efficacy and safety of ketorolac and other analgesic agents after third molar surgery. Data from papers with a lower risk of bias were recorded. The overall evaluation of analgesia onset, general and subgroup evaluation of the number of patients requiring rescue analgesic medication, general and subgroup assessment of the study medication (satisfaction on the study drugs), and the overall estimation of adverse effects were performed using the Review Manager Software 5.3 to analyse the data and obtain the meta-analysis plot.

Results: The subgroup evaluation of the study medication showed that patients who received ketorolac 30 mg were more satisfied than those who were given parecoxib 1 mg (odds ratio [OR] = 8.57, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.66-20.08, P = .00001), parecoxib 2 mg (OR = 7.17, 95% CI = 2.88-17.86, P = .0001), parecoxib 5 mg (OR = 3.03, 95% CI = 1.69-5.41, P = .0002), and parecoxib 10 mg (OR = 2.42, 95% CI = 1.36-4.32, P = .003). Moreover, patients who received ketorolac reported fewer adverse reactions compared with those who had received opioid analgesics (OR = 0.14, 95% CI = 0.32-1.76, P = .0001).

Conclusions: The data from this study demonstrates that the postoperative administration of ketorolac 30 mg presents better results on patient satisfaction when compared to parecoxib 1 mg to 10 mg, and presents a similar satisfaction to parecoxib 20 mg following third molar removal.

Keywords: diclofenac, opioid analgesics; ketorolac; parecoxib; third molar surgery.

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