Seyed Ashkan Tabibzadeh Dezfuli, Reza Yazdani, Mohsen Esmaeili, Shabnam Kazemi, Saeed Hayati


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ABSTRACT

 

Background: Acute renal colic (ARC) is known as a widespread urological emergency that its prevalence commonly increases in relation to kidney stone disease. The different agents are commonly used for relieving pain. This study, for first time, compared effect of propofol and fentanyl in controlling ARC of patients admitted to the Shahid Mohammadi Hospital (Bandar Abbas-Iran). 

Methods:  A total of 150 eligible patients were randomly selected from patients referred toShahidMohammadi hospital, Bandar Abbas. The basal pain values of the patients were investigated by the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) in values from 0 up to 10 at the 0th, (immediately before drug administration), 15th, and 30th minutes. Value of zero means lack of pain and 10 means the most pain. Demographic characteristics were also recorded.

Results: The results showed that most patients studies were male and middle age. Our findings did not show significant difference between groups for VAS0 (P>0.05). The results showed that mean for VAS0 was 8.80, 2.42, 5.05 and 9.01 for Morphine, Fentanyl and Propofol groups and total, respectively.  There was significant difference between Morphine with Propofol and Fentanyl for VAS30 (P<0.05). The results showed that values for VAS30 were 2.85, 1.19 and 3.52 for Morphine, Fentanyl and Propofol groups, respectively.

Conclusion: Thus, fentanyl had the best response for controlling pain in patients with ARC. It can be suggested to use fentanyl for controlling ARC in emergency department instead of morphine and other conventional agents with higher side effects.

Keywords: Acute renal colic, Fentanyl, Morphine, Propofol



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