Abstract
The authors report the findings from their retrospective review of pediatric patients who underwent laparoscopic urologic surgery and compared the postoperative course between those who had single-dose intrathecal opioid (ITO) prior to incision and matched them to a cohort who instead had local anesthetic infiltration (LAI) at wound sites. 1 Srinivasan A. Shrivastava D. Kurzweil R.E. Weiss D.A. Long C.J. Shukla A.R. Port site local anesthetic infiltration vs single-dose intrathecal opioid injection to control perioperative pain in children undergoing minimal invasive surgery: a comparative analysis. Urology. 2016; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2016.04.064 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (8) Google Scholar They found no statistically significant difference in postoperative narcotic usage or pain scores between the two groups.
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