Effect of Pregabalin and Dexamethasone on Postoperative Analgesia after Septoplasty

Table 4

Postoperative rescue analgesics and ondansetron use in the groups.

	Group C (control)	Group P (pregabalin)	Group PD (pregabalin + dexamethasone)	𝑃 value
Number of patients taking meperidine	17 (56.7%)^a,b	2 (6.7%)^a	3 (10.0%)^b	<0.001
Time to the first meperidin dose				0.767
0-1 h	16 (94.1%)	2 (100.0%)	3 (100.0%)
1–24 h	1 (5.9%)	—	—
Number of patients taking ondansetron	16 (53.3%)^a	7 (23.3%)^a	14 (46.7%)	0.046
Time to the first ondansetron dose				0.410
0-1 h	11 (68.8%)	3 (42.9%)	10 (71.4%)
1–24 h	5 (31.3%)	4 (57.1%)	4 (28.6%)

aThere was a statistically significant difference between Group C and Group P (𝑃<0.05).
^bThere was a statistically significant difference between Group C and Group PD (𝑃<0.001).