title: [Analgesic consumption--laparoscopic versus conventional cholecystectomy].
abstract: We compared two groups of 50 patients each with symptomatic cholecystolithiasis treated by either conventional or by laparoscopic cholecystectomy with regard to duration of postoperative pain and sort and amount of analgetics. Laparoscopic operation time was on an average 115.4 min (65-180 min), conventionally operated 78.1 min (35-140 min). Eight patients with laparoscopic cholecystectomy did not need analgetics at all. The average number of days of postoperative pain was 2.7 days for conventional operation and 1.13 days for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. In this time the conventionally operated patients needed four to five times the amount of analgetics as well morphin analogues as low-potency analgetics.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Heidelberg.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Glaser
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kuntz
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Buhr
mesh_terms: D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000601:surgery; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000601:surgery; D003085:Colic / Q000601:surgery; D004363:Drug Utilization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005705:Gallbladder Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics
vernacular_title: Schmerzmittelverbrauch--laparoskopische versus konventionelle Cholecystektomie.