Table 2. Median total postoperative intravenous analgesic and antiemetic doses.
Analgesic and antiemetic | All laparoscopy, 2004–2010 (n = 55) | Laparoscopy, 2004–2006 (n = 31) | Laparoscopy, 2007–2010 (n = 23) | Robotic, 2007–2010 (n = 30) | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intravenous analgesics (mg) | |||||
Total | 26.7 | 28 | 26.2 | 10.7 | 0.003* |
Range | 0–293 | 0–155 | 0–293 | 0–86.7 | |
Dose/day | 15.7 | 17 | 13.3 | 9.7 | 0.017** |
Intravenous antiemetic (doses) | |||||
Total | 4 | 3 | 5.5 | 5 | 0.72 |
Total range | 0–13 | 0–9 | 0–13 | 0–7 | |
Dose/day | 2.4 | 1.3 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 0.40 |
Dose/day range | 0–9 | 0–9 | 0–8 | 0–7 |
Robot is significantly different from laparoscopy 2004–2006 (p = 0.0024) and from laparoscopy 2007–2010 (p = 0.0127)
Robot is significantly different from laparoscopy (2004–2006) (p = 0.0153)