Mohamed Sayed Zaazouee, Abdelrahman Mohamed Mahmoud, Waleed Hosny Elfar, Kerolous Hana, Kerollos F Shamshoon, Michael H Adly, Tarek A Hussein, Mohammad M Hamza, Abrar Abdelhamid Aly, Mohammed Ahmed Eguzo, Abdullah Mohamed Farhat, Ahmed Bostamy Elsnhory, Mohammed Hassan Morsy, Manar Farag Ammar, Abdalrhman Abdalmajid Alnaji, Alaa Ahmed Elshanbary, Jaffer Shah, Yossef Hassan AbdelQadir
OBJECTIVE: Propofol is the most commonly used intravenous anesthetic medication and is most commonly associated with post-operative pain. Several drugs are investigated to reduce post-operative pain caused by propofol injection. Ondansetron is a potent anti-emetic drug showing promising results as an analgesic. This meta-analysis aims to compare the efficacy of ondansetron to placebo and lidocaine in reducing post-operative pain caused by propofol injection. METHODS: PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched for relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs) till May 2022...
September 22, 2023: Medicine (Baltimore)