Intraoperative nitrous oxide as a preventive analgesic

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 890-893

  Stiglitz, D K ^a   Amaratunge, L N ^a   Konstantatos, A H ^a   Lindholm, D E ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Multimodal analgesia; Nitrous oxide; NMDA receptor; Pain scores; Preventive analgesia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; ADOLESCENT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956475765     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1003800513     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Mao J, Price DD, Mayer DJ. Mechanisms of hyperalgesia and morphine tolerance: a current view of their possible interactions. Pain 1995; 62:259-274.
2. Coderre TJ. The role of excitatory amino acid receptors and intracellular messengers in persistent nociception after tissue injury in rats. Mol Neurobiol 1993; 7:229-246.
3. Millan MJ. The induction of pain: an integrative review. Prog Neurobiol 1999; 57:1-164.
4. Woolf CJ, Salter MW. Neuronal plasticity: increasing the gain in pain. Science 2000; 288:1765-1769.
5. Richebe P, Rivat C, Creton C, Laulin JP, Maurette P, Lemaire M et al. Nitrous oxide revisited: evidence for potent antihyperalgesic properties. Anesthesiology 2005; 103:845-854.
6. Katz J. Pre-emptive analgesia: evidence, current status and future directions. Eur J Anaesthesiol Suppl 1995; 10:8-13.
7. Kissin I. Preemptive analgesia: terminology and clinical relevance. Anesth Analg 1994; 79:809-810.
8. McCartney CJL, Sinha A, Katz J. A qualitative systematic review of the role of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists in preventive analgesia. Anesth Analg 2004; 98:1385-1400.
9. Ohashi Y, Guo T, Orii R, Maze M, Fujinaga M. Brain stem opioidergic and GABAergic neurons mediate the antinociceptive effect of nitrous oxide in Fischer rats. Anesthesiology 2003; 99:947-954. (Pubitemid 37186087)
10. Orii R, Ohashi Y, Halder S, Giombini M, Maze M, Fujinaga M. GABAergic interneurons at supraspinal and spinal levels differentially modulate the antinociceptive effect of nitrous oxide in Fischer rats. Anesthesiology 2003; 98:1223-1230. (Pubitemid 36520210)
11. Emmanouil DE, Quock RM. Advances in understanding the actions of nitrous oxide. Anesth Prog 2007; 54:9-18.
12. Fujinaga M, Maze M. Neurobiology of nitrous oxide-induced antinociceptive effects. Mol Neurobiol 2002; 25:167-189. (Pubitemid 34246229)
13. Jevtovic-Todorovic V, Todorovic SM, Mennerick S, Powell S, Dikranian K, Benshoff N. Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is an NMDA antagonist, neuroprotectant and neurotoxin. Nat Med 1998; 4:460-463.
14. Myles PS, Leslie K, Chan MTV, Forbes A, Paech MJ, Peyton P et al. Avoidance of nitrous oxide for patients undergoing major surgery: a randomized controlled trial. Anesthesiology 2007; 107:221-231.
15. Myles PS, Leslie K, Silbert B, Paech MJ, Peyton P. A review of the risks and benefits of nitrous oxide in current anaesthetic practice. Anaesth Intensive Care 2004; 32:165-172.
16. Analgesic Expert Group. Approximate Equianalgesic doses of various opioids Table 4. Therapeutic Guidelines: Analgesic. Version 5. Melbourne: Therapeutic Guidelines Limited; 2007: p. 35.
17. Apfelbaum JL, Chen C, Mehta SS, Gan TJ. Postoperative pain experience: results from a national survey suggest postoperative pain continues to be undermanaged. Anesth Analg 2003; 97:534-540.
18. van den Bosch JE, Bonsel GJ, Moons KG, Kalkman CJ. Effect of postoperative experiences on willingness to pay to avoid postoperative pain, nausea, and vomiting. Anesthesiology 2006; 104:1033-1039.
19. Myles PS, Power I. Clinical update: postoperative analgesia. Lancet 2007; 369:810-812.
20. Kehlet H, Holte K. Effect of postoperative analgesia on surgical outcome. Br J Anaesth 2001; 87:62-72.
21. Lynch M. Pain: the fifth vital sign. Comprehensive assessment leads to proper treatment. Adv Nurse Pract 2001; 9:28-36.
22. Katz JMC. Update on pre-emptive analgesia. Curr Opin Anesthesiol 2002; 15:435-441.
23. 2O) prevents latent pain sensitization and long-term anxiety-like behavior in pain and opioid-experienced rats. Neuropharmacology 2007; 53:733-740.
24. Farouk S. Pre-incisional epidural magnesium provides pre-emptive and preventive analgesia in patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy. Br J Anaesth 2008; 101:694-699.
25. Mei W, Seeling M, Franck M, Radtke F, Brantner B, Wernecke KD et al. Independent risk factors for postoperative pain in need of intervention early after awakening from general anaesthesia. Eur J Pain 2010; 14:149.