Association between intraoperative and postoperative epidural or intravenous patient-controlled analgesia and pancreatic fistula after distal pancreatectomy.
Takamichi IgarashiNorifumi HarimotoYusuke MatsuiRyo MuranushiTakahiro YamanakaKei HagiwaraKouki HoshinoNorihiro IshiiMariko TsukagoshiAkira WatanabeNorio KuboKenichiro ArakiShigeru SaitoKen ShirabePublished in: Surgery today (2020)
Intraoperative and postoperative epidural analgesia and IV-PCA are not associated with clinical POPF after DP. Our results suggest that morphine and fentanyl can be used as IV-PCA or epidural analgesia.