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Table 3 Summary of daily pruritus level counts.

From: Pharmacological strategies to reduce pruritus during postoperative epidural analgesia after lumbar fusion surgery - a prospective randomized trial in 150 patients

 

Group B

Group R

day

1

2

3

4

5

1

2

3

4

5

Pruritus

          

0

12

10

29

50

62

59

46

61

61

66

1

11

17

24

14

3

6

12

5

5

2

2

43

39

13

2

1

3

10

2

2

0

3

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

  1. The number of patients with clinical relevant pruritus, i.e. defined as grade 2 or 3 in our scale, in the two treatment groups differed significantly in favour of group R, P < 0.0001.
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Patient Safety in Surgery

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