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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 12.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2012 Oct 5;20(4):1355–1359. doi: 10.1245/s10434-012-2681-z

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)