Kenta Tsutsui, Yoshitaka Terazaki, Risa Kanai, Masako Ishii, Seika Ohno, Yoko Sasaki, Akira Kitamura, Daisuke Kudo, Wataru Sasaki, Naomichi Tanaka, Masataka Narita, Kazuhisa Matsumoto, Hitoshi Mori, Yoshifumi Ikeda, Takahide Arai, Shintaro Nakano, Ritsushi Kato
OBJECTIVE: Postoperative pain is a major issue with subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators (S-ICD). In 2020, we introduced intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV-PCA) in addition to the conventional, request-based analgesia for postoperative pain control in S-ICD. To determine the effect and safety, we quantitatively assessed the effect of IV-PCA after S-ICD surgery over conventional methods. METHODS: During the study period, a total of 113 consecutive patients (age, 50...
April 2024: Journal of Arrhythmia