Fast Track Liver Resection: The Effect of a Comprehensive Care Package and Analgesia with Single Dose Intrathecal Morphine with Gabapentin or Continuous Epidural Analgesia
Table 4
Details of operative procedures.
Intrathecal Morphine ()
Epidural Analgesia ()
Significance
Hemihepatectomy plus 1 metastatectomies
6
8
0.78
Hemihepatectomy
12
11
0.94
Extended hemihepatectomy
2
2
0.97
Multiple segmentectomy (2 segments)
9
10
0.87
Monosegmentectomy
10
12
0.88
Metastatectomy
11
7
0.64
Pringle time
12 patients 5 min 45 sec (range 3 min 30 sec to 12 min 58 sec)
11 patients 5 min 17 sec (range 3 min to 9 min 17 sec)
