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The Science & Art of Providing Thoracic
Epidural Analgesia in the Adult ThoracoAbdominal Surgical Population
Jason Sawyer, RN (EC), MN, BC
Board Certified-Pain Management
Nurse Practitioner, Acute Pain Service
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Lead, Pain Assessment, Documentation & Management Best Practices
Adjunct Lecturer, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of
Toronto.
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure
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Authors Conflicts of Interest;
– Jason Sawyer. Has received financial compensation
from Purdue Pharma for preparing & providing pain
management lectures. Last lecture: Winter 2013
•1212 beds - 677 acute care
•16 000 operative procedures/year
•1.2 million patient visits/year
•10 000 + employees
•5th largest cancer centre in North America
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Acute Pain Service
• 2 Nurse Practitioners Monday-Friday
• Staff or Fellow Anesthesiologist 7 days – Tues-Tues
• 3300-3500 patients/year
• 400-500 surgical thoracic/trauma epidurals
– Colorectal, hepatobiliary, gynecological, urological, CV,
trauma rib #’s
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Agenda
• Unrelieved postoperative pain
• Overview of thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA)
– Anatomy of the epidural space
– Review of commonly used local anesthetics and opioids
• Overview of the advantages of TEA
• Describe common TEA related side effects and their treatment
– Hypotension, pruritus, nausea, vomiting, urinary retention
• Describe our experience with epinephrine as a substitution for opioid
in thoracic epidurals
• Describe how Organizational Development courses helped guide
improvements in delivering safe and effective TEA
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What Do We Know……
• Pain is still poorly managed postoperatively ( Sawyer et al. 2008, 2010)
• Higher in-hospital pain scores correlate with higher post-discharge
pain scores (Vandenkerkhof, 2006)
• Post-discharge health care utilization is greater in those with higher
pain scores in-hospital and post-discharge (Vandenkerkhof, 2006)
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What Do We Know……
• Pain severity adversely effects quality of life in the immediate postop
period (Wu, 2003)
• Post-op pain contributes to decreased HRQL 1 month postdischarge, & interfered with ADL’s and sleep (Strassels, 2004)
• Patients that experienced severe pain and utilized the most
analgesics the first 7 days postop have ↑ risk of developing chronic
post surgical pain (CPSP) (Visser 2006)
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If you were given a strong pain killer like morphine
after surgery, how worried would you be about
becoming addicted?
1. Not worried at all
2. A little bit worried
3. More than a little bit
worried
4. Very worried
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Would you try to limit how much strong pain
killers like morphine you use because you
worried about becoming addicted?
1. Yes
2. No
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“Oh, Just Give Them IV-PCA”…..
• Opioids are not benign
• Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia (OIH)
• Significant increase in addiction to legal opioid prescriptions
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5 –fold increase in prescription opioid related deaths in the
US (CDC 2013)
• This does not reflect patient concerns regarding opioids
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Brief Summary
• Effective postoperative pain management remains an elusive
goal
• Severe pain in the postoperative period is a key factor in
developing CPSP
– But not everyone with severe acute pain develops chronic
pain
• Negative impact on quality of recovery, quality of life,
relationships
• Patients and families have strong beliefs/misconceptions
about the side effects of opioids
•15 What to do…..what to do….
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• Postop matched pair cohorts epidural and PCA (88 188
patients) across surgical populations
• Epidural associated with small reduction in 30 day mortality
(1.7 vs 2.0 RR 0.89 CI 0.81-0.98 p= 0.02 NNT=477)
• Epidural patients generally had a higher co-morbidity burden
• “Furthermore, the increased burden of co-morbid illness in
patients who received epidural anaesthesia would suggest
that our study, if anything, is biased against epidural
anaesthesia” pg 567
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http://www.bpigs.ca/
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Brief Summary
• The analgesic benefits of TEA are well described in the
literature across many surgical populations
• Efforts to find reductions in morbidity and mortality are difficult
because incidence rates of serious outcomes are very low
– Despite epidurals are often placed in less well patients
• Need to focus on TEA (and ultimately quality pain
management) related to
– Quality of recovery
– Quality of life
– Chronic post surgical pain
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• Year : 2009 | Volume : 12 | Issue : 2 | Page : 166-167
• High thoracic epidural analgesia for cardiac surgery: Time to move
from morbidity to quality of recovery indicators
• Colin F Royse
Anaesthesia and Pain Management Unit, Department of
Pharmacology, University of Melbourne; and Cardiothoracic
Anaesthetist, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
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Where It All Started
August Bier 1861-1949
surgeon
1898 Spinal Anesthetic
Assisted by August
Hildebrandt
James Leonard Corning 1855-1923
neurologist
1885 Spinal cocaine
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Epidural Anatomy
• Epidural space is a potential space, containing crevices
around the epidural contents (fat, veins, lymphatics, nerve
roots, dural sac)
• These layers and textures affect the flow of analgesics
through the space
• Epidural venous flow is predominantly located anteriorly
• Veins lack valves
•McLeod, 2004, Richardson, 2005, Bauer, 2012
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Epidural Anatomy
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Ligamentum flavum is non continuous and not pain sensitive
• Proximity to CSF/Spinal Cord is crucial
• Sympathetic fibres T1-L2
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Some effect
• Age
– 40% less dose for (60-79)
vs (20-39)
– Diminished fatty tissue
– Decrease in myelinated
nerves
– Increased epidural space
compliance
– Dura more permeable
Minimal/no effect
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Height, weight BMI
positioning
Gravity
Needle direction
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Minimal/no effect
Some effect
• Site of insertion determines
distribution
• Total mass of LA more
important than
concentration or volume
• Distance into epidural space
– 4-6 cm threaded into
epidural space
• Fractional vs single bolus
injection
• Epidural pressures
• Pressure in adjacent body
cavities
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What Analgesics?
• Local Anesthetics
• Opioids
• Epinephrine
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Epidural Local Anesthetics
• Primary route of action is spinal nerve roots
– Weak effect on spinal cord and paravertebral nerves
• Majority absorbed systemically via venous system (peak 1030 mins)- highly lipid soluble (lipophillic)
– Epidural fat
– Diffusion across dura
• Ester local anesthetics metabolized by plasma
pseudocholinesterase (rarely used for epidural analgesia)
• Amide local anesthetics metabolized in the liver
– Most commonly used are bupivacaine and ropivacaine
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• Smaller nerves more susceptible to effects of LA
– Pain, temperature, touch, motor
• Myelinated fibres are more susceptible to effects of LA
– Myelination speeds conduction in Nodes of Ranvier which
contain high concentrations of Na+ channels
• Positive temperature or pin prick (qualitative) assessments do
not necessarily equal analgesia- only let you know where the
LA is spreading
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Epidural Opioid Site of Action
Substantia Gelatinosa of Spinal Cord
philic = friendly
Primarily
Spinal Effect
Hydrophilic
Morphine
Lipophilic
Primarily
Supraspinal
Hydromorphone
(Dilaudid)
Fentanyl
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Questions Without An Answer
– Ideal mixture of solution (LA and/or opioid) still debatable
• LA only no opioid side effects but possibly more
hypotension
• Opioid only no better than systemic opioids and ↑ side
effects
• LA + opioid best ?
• Is benefit of fentanyl primarily systemic or spinal?
• Other adjuncts?
(Wetterslev 2001, Brown 2004)
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Side Effects, Big & Small
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Presented as
Mean %
Pruritus
N=21 461
Nausea
N= 20 606
Vomiting
N=11 423
Urinary Retention
N=12 513
Mild
Sedation
N= 9451
All
14.7
25.2
20.2
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23.9
IM
3.4
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21.9
15.2
53.7
IV-PCA
13.8
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20.7
13.4
56.5
Epidural
16.1
18.8
16.2
29.1
14.3
Presented
as Mean
%
Respiratory
depression
naloxone use
N= 55 404
All
0.3
4.7
1.1
17
3.3
IM
1.4
3.6
0.8
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1.3
IV-PCA
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1.9
0.7
1.2
11.5
1.3
Epidural
0.1
5.5
1.1
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Hemodynamic
depression
(all definitions)
N= 24 955
Respiratory depression
by decreased ventilatory
frequency
N= 29 607
Respiratory
depression by
decreased O2 sats
N= 1516
Respiratory
depression by
elevated PaCO2
N= 3170
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What intervention do you use FIRST for pruritus you suspect is from opioid in the
thoracic epidural? N= 70
Administer Benadryl
Administer Nalbuphine
Administer Naloxone
Administer Naloxone infusion
Administer Ondansetron
Reduce/change the opioid in the
epidural
Remove the opioid from the epidural
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• Mechanism of Opioid Induced Pruritus (OIP)is poorly
understood
• Mu opioid receptors seem to play a key role
– Spinal cord not brain or periphery
• Histamine release has very little role
– So antihistamines will most likely not help!
• The more invasive the opioid administration, the higher the
incidence of OIP
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Very few trials
Propofol (IV) 10-20 mg
Nalbuphine (IV) 4mg
Naltrexone (PO) 6 mg
Naloxone infusions (2mcg/kg/hr)
Ondansetron (IV) 8mg
Antihistamines –sedating effect may break the itch/scratch
cycle
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Postoperative Nausea & Vomiting (PONV)
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(Watcha & White 2002)
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Gan 2007
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Hypotension- Local Data
N=64 Epidural 35 IV-PCA 29
Category
Epidural
Age
68.1*
IV-PCA
57.8
Surgical Time
Mean Blood Loss
326* (min)
700* ml
193 (min)
274.4 ml
LOS
7.67
8.1
Post op Comp.
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10
*= statistical significance
No difference between groups in Sex, preop BP, comorbidities, postop complications,
or pts that were receiving BP meds preop
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Percentage of Patients
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Incidence of Patients with a Mean Systolic Blood Pressure Meeting
Hypotensive Criteria (Graph 2)
PCA (H80)
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PCA (H90)
40
Epidural (H80)
20
Epidural (H90)
0
PACU
Post
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Time Period
% Patients
Receiving Fluid
Boluses
Incidence of Patients Receiving at Least One Fluid Bolus (Graph 3)
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80.0%
60.0%
40.0%
Epidural
20.0%
0.0%
PCA
PACU
Post
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Time Period
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• Significance of analgesia mode on SBP was dependent on
definition of hypotension
– If definition was 20% drop from baseline SBP then there
was significantly more patients hypotensive in the epidural
group in the initial postop period
– If the definition was a SBP less than 90, there was no
difference between epidural and PCA patients regardless
of timing
– females much more likely to be hypotensive
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Urinary Retention
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Side Effect Summary
• Incidence of nausea, vomiting and naloxone use lower in
epidural groups vs IV-PCA
• No single agent will be universally effective for PONV
– evidence that algorithms are beneficial in appropriately
screened patients (Krancke 2007)
• Incidence of pruritus with epidurals is much higher, but not
histamine mediated. Evidence supports Ondansetron
(Zofran) and opioid reversal agents
• Incidence of urinary retention with TEA is approximately 10%
and demonstrates a decrease in UTI
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Survey Results
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What do you do FIRST when a patient has an appropriate bilateral sensory
block in the surgical area, but still has moderate/severe pain with coughing?
(Epidural solution is Ropivacaine 0.2% + HYDROmorphone 0.010mg/ml; rate
6ml/hr, PCEA 3ml, lockout 15 minutes) incision is midline.Sensory block is T412 bilateral, covering the entire incision. N=57
60.0%
50.0%
50.0%
42.6%
Bolus the epidural with more of the same
epidural solution infusing through the epidural
pump and increase the rate?
Bolus the epidural catheter with a more potent,
different, local anesthetic (e.g. lidocaine), then
resume with the same epidural solution
40.0%
30.0%
Bolus the epidural catheter to comfort with a
more potent dose of ropivacaine, then resume
the infusion at the more potent dose of
ropivacaine.
20.0%
10.0%
Continue the current epidural solution and add
IV-PCA/other route of opioid
5.6%
1.9%
0.0%
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If you have more than 1 epidural solution to choose from, how do you decide which
one to use on your patients? (N=64)
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
Anesthesiology preference
Acute Pain Service preference
Customized based on patient
factors
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How long, on average, do you keep your thoracic epidurals infusing?
N= 74
60.0%
50.0%
1 day
2 days
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
3 days
4 days
5 days
6 days
7 days
10.0%
>7 days
0.0%
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Do you routinely use etCO2 or continuous pulse oximetry for your patients with
thoracic epidurals that contain opioids? N= 73
Yes
No
• some sites still require ICU monitoring for epidurals (opioid)
Published incidence of respiratory depression requiring Naloxone
(Narcan) approximately 0.1%......
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Online Survey
• Local anesthetics
– 2/3 bupivacaine (most common 0.1%)
– 1/3 ropivacaine (most common 0.1-0.2%)
• Opioids
– 55% fentanyl (1-5mcg/ml)
– 40% Hydromorphone (4-20mcg/ml)
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Epinephrine (2) Clonidine (1)
Vast majority LA/opioid combination
Very few had multiple options
% of patients receiving IV-PCA & Epidural
– Highly variable
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Historical TEA delivery at Sunnybrook
• Choice of a single ropivacaine (Naropin) concentration (0.2%)
with options for hydromorphone (Dilaudid) 5 or 10 mcg/ml
• No PCEA component
• Trouble shooting involved large doses of lidocaine
(Xylocaine)-continue with original epidural solution
• High infusion rates (15-20ml/hr)
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• Perceived excessive failure rate
• Not uncommon to add IV-PCA opioid to epidural
• Suboptimal outcomes for chronic pain/chronic opioid users
that receive epidurals
• Aggressive multimodal analgesia with NSAIDS,
Gabapentinoids, Acetaminophen (Tylenol) > 10 years
• TEA care provided on surgical units for > 15 years
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Lessons Learned…
• Quickly
– Adding epinephrine (Adrenaline) to Ropivacaine (Naropin)
/HYDROmorphone (Dilaudid) combination frequently
caused pruritus when none existed before (particularly with
10 mcg/ml)-in the same patient)
– Ropivacaine (Naropin) 0.2% with Epinephrine (Adrenaline)
5mcg/ml did not seem to work consistently as well as we
would have liked
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• Can we have an opioid free epidural program?
• Can we do a better job individualizing TEA?
• Can we trouble shoot more effectively- especially at night?
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Can We Have An Opioid Free Epidural
Program?
• History of Epinephrine Use
• Saddle Block for labor
• 1mg of epinephrine (1cc of 1:1000 epinephrine with 1cc of 5%
dextrose into CSF
– “complete relief of pain of uterine contraction”
– No systemic effects noted
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(Priddle & Andros 1950)
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How Neuraxial Epinephrine Works
• Independently causes segmental hypoalgesia when given
epidurally to pinprick (100 mcg) (Curatolo et al 1997) & pinprick/ice
(50mcg) (Bromage et al 1983)
• Absorbed into the CSF and binds to α2 adrenoreceptors in
substantia gelatinosa of the dorsal horn (Curatolo et al 1997)
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• Epidural Epinephrine (100mcg) reduced peak plasma
concentrations of 20ml of 0.5% bupivacaine or 2% lidocaine
by 25% in 40 patients undergoing minor general/ortho
procedures (Burm et al 1986)
• Epidural Epinephrine (100 mcg) reduced peak plasma
morphine levels (10mg epidural) by 60% in a study of 3
healthy volunteers (Bromage et al 1983)
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Adding Fentanyl (20 pts)
2001
Adding Epinephrine 12 pts
2002
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Bupiv 1mg/ml fent & epi 2mcg/ml
Without fentanyl pain with
coughing significantly worse after
3 hours
Pain decreased within 15 mins
and no difference within 1 hr of
reintroducing fentanyl
No change in sensory blockade
during non fentanyl times
No difference in any side effects
with or without fentanyl
No difference in time out of bed
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Ropiv 1mg/ml fent/epi 2mcg/ml
Without Epi pain at rest & with
coughing significantly worse within
2 hrs
Pain decreased within 15 mins
and no difference within 1 hr of
reintroducing epi compared to
baseline
Significant regression of sensory
blockade with removal of
epinephrine
Nausea increases significantly
when epinephrine removed
Significantly more mobilization
with epinephrine
Overview of Epinephrine for TEA
• Epinephrine given epidurally:
– Has its own antinociceptive properties
– Likely increases the amount of opioid and LA reaching the
spinal cord & nerve roots
– More intense and prolonged analgesic effect
– Wider sensory coverage
– Reduced concentrations of each class of analgesia are
required
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(Niemi et al 2002)
– Reduces systemic absorption of opioids and LA by 2560%
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Can We Do A Better Job Individualizing
TEA?
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Lean Healthcare
Identifies the least wasteful way to provide better, safer care
Doing more with resources available
5 principles
– Specify Value
– Identify the value stream/patient journey
– Make the process and value flow
– Deliver care on demand, with the resources required
– Pursue perfection
• 7 types of waste
– Correction, waiting, transportation, over processing,
inventory, motion, over production
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Technical Aspects- Placement
Paravertebral, pleural
cavity and intravascular
placement
Higher success rate
with placement
>5cm into epidural
space
Secondary
migration after
insertion
Imprecise
catheter
placement
Method of
epidural space
identification
Technical Aspects – Catheter & Line
tunneling
Test dose
Line patency
Pharmacological
Dose
Volume optimization
Concentration
Choice of
medications
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Correction
Waiting
Transportation
Initial epidural plan as per OR
anesthesia
APS not involved until POD #1
Limited TEA solutions available
Patients waiting until “Pain Service
arrives”
“Hoping” initial interventions work
LA not available on high volume epidural
units
Vasopressors also not available
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Overprocessing/Inventory
Motion
Overproduction
Several cassettes of plain
ropivacaine 0.2% on a
single, high volume unit, but
no other options
Drugs to trouble shoot had to be
brought to unit (analgesics and
vasopressors- variability
Difficult to find space for rescue
epidurals
Wastage of premade ropivacaine cassettes
($16 000/year)
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TEA Management At Sunnybrook
Implementation Fall 2014
• Transition to opioid free epidural analgesia regimen
• Consultation with Pharmacy (clinicians and manufacturing)
• Continuous infusion + PCA component
• Epinephrine (Adrenaline) 5mcg/ml and Ropivacaine (Naropin)
0.3% standard solution
• Additional solutions available for individualizing TEA
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Primary Approach
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Collaborate with Anesthesia Intraop
Normotensive preop
No chronic pain/opioid use
Epidural placed T6-10
Plan
Ropivacaine (Naropin) 0.3% and Epinephrine (Adrenaline)
0.005mg/ml
• Rate: 6ml/hr (range 3-8ml/hr) PCEA 3ml Lockout 15 minutes
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Customization Option 1
• Collaborate with Anesthesia
• No chronic pain/opioid use + any of the following
– “hypotensive” preoperatively
– Elderly/frail
– Epidural placed T10-12 (increased risk for motor block)
• Plan
• Ropivacaine (Naropin) 0.125% and Epinephrine
(Adrenaline) 0.005mg/ml
• Rate: 6ml/hr (range 3-8ml/hr) PCEA 3ml Lockout 15
minutes
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Customizing Option 2
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Normotensive preop
Chronic pain/opioid use and/or
Painful procedure
Epidural placed T6-10
Plan
Ropivacaine (Naropin) 0.5% and Epinephrine (Adrenaline)
0.005mg/ml
• Rate: 6ml/hr (range 3-8ml/hr) PCEA 3ml Lockout 15 minutes
• Preoperative opoids by same route
• Plasma concentrations peak in about 67 hrs (of 120 hrs)
(2000,Wiedemann)
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• Painful Procedure (this is a single procedure!)
– Small bowel resection, closure of loop ileostomy,
abdominal wall hernia repair with components separation,
placement of biological mesh (10x25cm), intraperitoneal
underlay implant, excision of large skin flaps
• In all instances
– Adjuncts as able
– Midodrine 10 mg po q 8h prn x3 for SBP <90 mmHg
– PONV algorithm
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Can We Do A Better Job of
Troubleshooting?
• Uncontrolled Pain –bilateral/unilateral, +/- sensory block
• Bolus epidural with more potent Ropivacaine (Naropin) as
opposed to Lidocaine
– 1% Ropivacaine vials and
– cassettes with 0.125/0.2/0.3/0.4/05% available on high
volume unit
– If satisfactory relief with more potent bolus- start infusion
with same
– Rescue epidurals significantly reduced
– When required- perform on the patient unit
– Minimal hypotension requiring intervention (vs. using
Lidocaine)
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Trouble Shooting
• Appropriate analgesia and dense motor block
– If shutting off until motor block resolution and restarting at
a lower rate not satisfactory
– Lower concentration of Ropivacaine available
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Patient Education
• There is not a needle in your back
• Sedation/nausea/vomiting/pruritus NOT from your pain
medication
• Leave TEA > 3 days to minimize exposure to opioids
• Epidurals are a way to avoid opioids
• Outline daily process of epidural removal.
– What to expect
– How soon to go home
– Considering handing out little “key messages”
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Benefits Of Our New Approach
• Perhaps the combination of Epi +LA is “Just Right”
• No more
– Pruritus
– Opioid contribution to ileus
• Reduced systemic absorption when using more potent LA
concentrations
• No increased incidence of motor block observed to date with
increased LA concentration
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• Reduction in replacement epidurals
• Reduction in epidural failure rate
• Many patients not exposed to opioid during hospital
admission
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Conclusions
• Epidurals continue to be the main stay for analgesia for many
post surgical populations
• Evidence for improved analgesia compared to all traditional
modes of analgesia is indisputable
• We still have not identified the ideal medications/combinations
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• Room to improve individuality of epidural analgesia
• Need to dedicate key people to deliver this service and
provide continuity of care
• Research should focus on quality of life/recovery, and effect
on chronic pain/opioid use
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Thank You
• [email protected]
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