Management of analgesia in acute pancreatitis : Results of a national survey

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INTRODUCTION: Acute pancreatitis is one of the main reasons for digestive admissions. Adequate pain treatment is crucial in its management. However, there are hardly any descriptions of the analgesic guidelines used in our setting.

METHODS: On-line survey on analgesic management in acute pancreatitis, aimed at attending physicians and residents practising in Spain.

RESULTS: Two hundred and nine physicians from 88 centres responded to the survey. Ninety percent were specialists in gastrointestinal medicine and 69% worked in a tertiary centre. The majority (64.4%) do not routinely use scales to measure pain. When choosing a drug, experience in its use was the most important factor. The most commonly prescribed initial treatments are: combination of paracetamol and metamizole (53.5%), paracetamol alone (19.1%) and metamizole alone (17.4%). As rescue: meperidine (54.8%), tramadol (17.8%), morphine chloride (17.8%) and metamizole (11.5%). Continuous perfusion is used in 8.2% of initial treatments. Physicians with >10 years of service use more metamizole as monotherapy (50%), while residents and attending physicians with <10 years of service prescribe it in combination with paracetamol (85%). If progression is needed, morphine chloride and meperidine are mainly used. The speciality of the respondent, the size of the work centre and the unit/service where the patients were admitted did not influence the analgesia prescribed. Satisfaction with pain management reached 7.8/10 (SD 0.98).

CONCLUSION: In our setting, metamizole and paracetamol are the most commonly used analgesics as initial pain treatment in acute pancreatitis, and meperidine is the most commonly used rescue analgesic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:47

Enthalten in:

Gastroenterologia y hepatologia - 47(2024), 3 vom: 02. März, Seite 230-235

Sprache:

Englisch

Weiterer Titel:

Manejo de la analgesia en la pancreatitis aguda. Resultados de una encuesta nacional

Beteiligte Personen:

Campillo Arregui, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Bolado Concejo, Federico [VerfasserIn]
León Brito, Helena [VerfasserIn]
Martínez-Acítores de la Mata, Diego [VerfasserIn]
Ubieto Capela, Verónica [VerfasserIn]
Cebrián García, Alba [VerfasserIn]
Kutz Leoz, Marcos [VerfasserIn]
Laiglesia Izquierdo, Matilde [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Acetaminophen
Acute pancreatitis
Analgesia
Analgesics
Dipyrone
Encuesta nacional
Journal Article
Meperidine
Morphine
National survey
Pancreatitis aguda

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Date Completed 04.03.2024

Date Revised 04.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.gastrohep.2023.05.006

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NLM357104749