Purpose To clarify the efficacy of postoperative pain management following laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG), we retrospectively compared pain assessments in patients who received fentanyl plus celecoxib with those who received epidural anesthesia. Results No significant difference in the severity of postoperative pain on postoperative day (POD) 0 or 1 was observed between the two groups. In contrast, pain was significantly lower in Group-FC than Group-E on POD 2, 3, 4, and 7. The total use of rescue pain medications during the first 7 days following LG did not differ between the two groups.
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ConclusionPain management using 24 hours of intravenous fentanyl and 4 days of oral celecoxib is comparable to epidural anesthesia following LG.