Table 4.

Postoperative narcotic administration.

	Subjects with peripheral nerve blocks (n = 54)	Subjects without peripheral nerve blocks (n = 17)	Statistical comparison
Given a narcotic in the PACU	29 (53.7%)	14 (82.4%)	P = 0.047*†
Given a nonnarcotic pain medication in the PACU	4 (7.4%)	1 (5.9%)	P = 1.00
Given no pain medication in the PACU	21 (38.9%)	2 (11.8%)	P = 0.042*†

^*Results reported in terms of a frequency count (%) and compared with the Fisher exact test.

†Statistical significance defined as P < 0.05.

PACU, postoperative care unit.