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. 2021 Oct 13;28:26–33. doi: 10.1016/j.jor.2021.10.005

Table 4.

Anesthesia details and hospital outcomes.

Patient Characteristic All Patients
Group 1 No Multimodal
Group 2 Acetaminophen Only
Group 3 Acetaminophen with Pregabalin/Gabapentin Only
Group 4 Celecoxib with Acetaminophen or Pregabalin/Gabapentin
Group 5 Full Multimodal – Celecoxib, Acetaminophen, and Pregabalin/Gabapentin
P-Value
N = 1546 N = 357 N = 151 N = 326 N = 57 N = 655
Anesthesia Details – n (%)
Spinal Anesthesia 968 (62.6) 216 (60.5) 82 (54.3) 176 (54.0) 41 (71.9) 453 (69.2) <0.001
ASA ≥3 640 (41.4) 145 (40.6) 79 (52.3) 141 (43.3) 33 (57.9) 242 (36.9) <0.001
PACU Recovery Outcomes
PONV – n (%) 45 (2.9) 10 (2.8) 5 (3.3) 8 (2.5) 2 (3.5) 20 (3.1) 0.977
Last Pain NRS – avg. ± SD 3.2 ± 2.3 3.5 ± 2.4 3.1 ± 2.2 3.5 ± 2.3 2.7 ± 2.7 2.9 ± 2.2 <0.001
Last Pain NRS ≥7 – n (%) 86 (5.6) 27 (7.6) 7 (4.6) 21 (6.4) 3 (5.3) 28 (4.3) 0.238
Minutes in PACU – avg. ± SD 155.3 ± 54.3 153.3 ± 54.3 148.5 ± 50.0 155.8 ± 70.3 156.5 ± 58.3 157.7 ± 52.6 0.440
Hospital Outcomes
LOS (Days) – avg. ± SD 1.08 ± 0.68 1.23 ± 0.82 1.15 ± 0.76 1.05 ± 0.56 1.02 ± 0.30 1.00 ± 0.64 <0.001
LOS (Hours) – avg. ± SD 31.97 ± 15.69 35.54 ± 19.52 33.31 ± 18.05 31.30 ± 12.53 30.05 ± 7.63 30.29 ± 14.42 <0.001
LOS ≥2 Days – n (%) 190 (12.3) 78 (21.8)a 19 (12.6)a,b 30 (9.2)a,b 3 (5.3)b 60 (9.2)b <0.001
Inpatient OMME – avg. ± SD 82.94 ± 53.42 97.47 ± 60.82 80.33 ± 45.40 79.95 ± 46.55 89.16 ± 62.32 76.56 ± 51.79 <0.001
OMME ≥75th percentile – n (%) 393 (25.4) 133 (37.3)a 39 (25.8)a,b 76 (23.3)b 15 (26.3)a,b 130 (19.8)b <0.001
Post-Discharge Outcomes
30-Day Readmission – n (%) 29 (1.9) 4 (1.1) 7 (4.6) 5 (1.5) 0 (0.0) 13 (2.0) 0.069
90-Day Readmission – n (%) 31 (2.0) 5 (1.4) 7 (4.6) 5 (1.5) 0 (0.0) 14 (2.1) 0.108
30-Day Return to OR – n (%) 12 (0.8) 3 (0.8) 3 (2.0) 1 (0.3) 0 (0.0) 5 (0.8) 0.370

P-Values <0.05 in bold.

Each subscript letter denotes a subset of group categories whose column proportions do not differ significantly from each other at the .05 level after bonferroni adjusted post hoc analysis (ie. a does not significantly differ from a; a,b does not significantly differ from a or b).

ASA – American Society of Anesthesiologists classification.

PACU – Post anesthesia care unit.

PONV – Postoperative nausea and vomiting.

NRS – Numeric rating scale (0–10).

LOS – Length of stay.

OMME – Oral morphine milligram equivalents.

OR – Operating room.