Yonsei Med J.  2013 Sep;54(5):1273-1281. 10.3349/ymj.2013.54.5.1273.

Risk Assessment of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in the Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia Environment: Predictive Values of the Apfel's Simplified Risk Score for Identification of High-Risk Patients

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. yschoi@yuhs.ac

Abstract

PURPOSE
Opioid-based intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA) is popular method of postoperative pain control, but many patients suffer from IV PCA-related postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). In this retrospective observational study, we have determined independent predictors of IV PCA-related PONV and predictive values of the Apfel's simplified risk score in pursuance of identifying high-risk patients.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
We analyzed 7000 patients who received IV PCA with background infusion after elective surgery. Patients who maintained IV PCA for a postoperative period of 48 hr (completion group, n=6128) were compared with those who have discontinued IV PCA within 48 hr of surgery due to intractable PONV (cessation group, n=872). Patients, anesthetics, and surgical factors known for predicting PONV were evaluated by logistic regression analysis to identify independent predictors of IV PCA related intractable PONV.
RESULTS
In a stepwise multivariate analysis, weight, background infusion dose of fentanyl, addition of ketolorac to PCA, duration of anesthesia, general anesthesia, head and neck surgery, and Apfel's simplified risk score were revealed as independent risk factors for intractable PONV followed by the cessation of IV PCA. In addition, Apfel's simplified risk score, which demonstrated the highest odds ratio among the predictors, was strongly correlated with the cessation rate of IV PCA.
CONCLUSION
Multimodal prophylactic antiemetic strategies and dose reduction of opioids may be considered as strategies for the prevention of PONV with the use of IV PCA, especially in patients with high Apfel's simplified risk scores.

Keyword

Apfel's simplified risk score; patient-controlled analgesia; postoperative nausea and vomiting

MeSH Terms

Adult
Analgesia, Patient-Controlled/*adverse effects
Anesthetics, Intravenous/administration & dosage/adverse effects/therapeutic use
Antiemetics/administration & dosage/therapeutic use
Female
Fentanyl/administration & dosage/adverse effects/therapeutic use
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Multivariate Analysis
Odds Ratio
Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting/*drug therapy
Retrospective Studies
Risk Assessment/methods
Risk Factors
Anesthetics, Intravenous
Antiemetics
Fentanyl

Figure

  • Fig. 1 Study profile. TIVA, total intravenous anesthesia; PONV, postoperative nausea and vomiting; IV PCA, intravenous patient-controlled analgesia; ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists.

  • Fig. 2 The correlation between Apfel's simplified risk score and the cessation rate of IV PCA due to PONV. Data showed strong linear correlation between them based on Cochran-Armitage trend test (p<0.001). IV PCA, intravenous patient controlled analgesia; PONV, postoperative nausea and vomiting.

  • Fig. 3 ROC-curve for the prediction of PONV for Apfel's simplified risk score (AUC 0.67, 95% CI 0.66-0.68). ROC-curve, receiver operating characteristic curve; PONV, postoperative nausea and vomiting; AUC, area under the ROC curve; CI, confidence interval.

  • Fig. 4 The percentages of patients experiencing PONV and receiving rescue antiemetics at 1-6, 6-24, and 24-48 hr after surgery. *p<0.001 versus completion group. PONV, postoperative nausea and vomiting.


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