Prevention of opioid-induced hyperalgesia in surgical patients: does it really matter?
Prevention of opioid-induced hyperalgesia in surgical patients: does it really matter?
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预防手术患者阿片类药物引起的痛觉过敏:这真的很重要吗?
DOI:
10.1093/bja/aes278
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
D. Fletcher
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作者:
V. Martinez;D. Fletcher
302 surgery. Pain measurements were performed on the arm using hand-held von Frey filaments. Baseline pain thresholds to mechanical stimuli were similar in both groups, with the mean values of 69 [95% confidence interval (CI): 50.2, 95.1] g in the group without N2O and 71 (95% CI: 45.7, 112.1) g in the group with N2O. Postoperative pain scores and cumulative morphine consumption were similar between the groups. The analysis revealed a decrease in the threshold value in both groups. However, post hoc comparisons showed that at 12–18 h after surgery, the decrease in mechanical threshold was greater in the group without N2O than the group with N2O. OIH has been clearly identified in animal models 2 and in human volunteers. 3 Opioids which are potentially responsible for OIH in these experimental conditions include remifentanil and fentanyl. The neurobiology of OIH is complex and likely to involve more than one system, with probable differences between acute and chronic settings at both pre-and post-synaptic levels, affecting N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activity, G-proteins, and intracellular systems. 4 The cumulative dose of remifentanil and the rapid withdrawal may be factors in remifentanil-induced hyperalgesia. 5 6 In a model of incisional pain in mice, remifentanil induced pro-nociceptive effects, which were dosedependent but unaltered by the duration of administration. 5 The importance of the cumulative dose of opioid appears to be confirmed by clinical studies of remifentanil-induced hyperalgesia in surgical patients. In negative studies, the cumulative dose range used was 20–30 mg kgJ1, 6–10 in contrast to a range of 80–120 mg kgJ1 used in positive studies. 11–15 An in vitro study showed that abrupt withdrawal of opioid agonists induced long-term potentiation at the first synapse in pain pathways. 16 This provides a previously unrecognized target for selectively combating pronociceptive effects of opioids without compromising opioid analgesia. The importance of tapered withdrawal to reduce the expression of remifentanil-induced hyperalgesia has not been investigated in humans. How is OIH defined in the surgical patient? The International Association of the Study of Pain defines hyperalgesia as ‘Increased pain from a stimulus that normally provokes pain’. Therefore, the increased perception of pain after opioid-based anaesthesia could be the key factor associated with OIH. In addition, tolerance with the increased use of opioid after surgery is another potential, coexisting aspect of OIH. The mechanisms of opioid tolerance were recently addressed in an editorial accompanying a study of the role of b-arrestin 2 in a rodent model of opioid tolerance. 17 18 These two phenomena may be interrelated by common neural substrates. 19 In surgical patients, OIH, tolerance, or both have been identified mainly after remifentanil-based anaesthesia. 11–15 20 However, of these studies, only two have tested pain sensitivity to clearly identify OIH. 12 20 Although OIH is an interesting concept, does its prevention matter for surgical patients? Different methods to prevent OIH have been tested, including perioperative ketamine, 12 magnesium, 15 propofol, 14 and nitrous oxide. 1 In these clinical studies aimed at preventing OIH, the clinical benefit in the immediate postoperative period is either absent, 1 limited to a moderate opioid-sparing effect, 12 14 or a slight reduction in pain scores. 14 15 None of these studies found that the morphine-sparing effect had any impact on the opioid-related side-effects. Finally, these studies were not powered to adequately estimate the side-effects related to the prevention technique. Therefore, the clinical …