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Published in: Obesity Surgery 1/2018

01-01-2018 | Letter to the Editor

Analyses of Time to Recovery Including Time to Tracheal Extubation Need to Be Performed While Incorporating Their Probability Distribution

Authors: Franklin Dexter, Richard H. Epstein

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 1/2018

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Singh et al. performed a meta-analysis of differences in recovery between desflurane and sevoflurane [1]. The economic benefit is the largest for reducing time to tracheal extubation, so we consider that endpoint [2]. From Singh et al., “patients who got desflurane as the maintenance anesthetic had tracheal extubation lowered by 4.97 min.” “The heterogeneity for the above comparison was 92.64%.” “The heterogeneity across the pooled primary variables was high.” …
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Singh PM, Borle A, McGavin J, et al. Comparison of the recovery profile between desflurane and sevoflurane in patients undergoing bariatric surgery—a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Obes Surg. 2017;27:3031–9.
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Dexter F, Bayman EO, Epstein RH. Statistical modeling of average and variability of time to extubation for meta-analysis comparing desflurane to sevoflurane. Anesth Analg. 2010;110:570–80.CrossRefPubMed
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Wachtel RE, Dexter F, Epstein RH, et al. Meta-analysis of desflurane and propofol average times and variability in times to extubation and following commands. Can J Anesth. 2011;58:714–24.CrossRefPubMed
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Ledolter J, Dexter F, Epstein RH. Analysis of variance of communication latencies in anesthesia: comparing means of multiple log-normal distributions. Anesth Analg. 2011;113:888–96.CrossRefPubMed
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Epstein RH, Dexter F, Brull SJ. Cohort study of cases with prolonged tracheal extubation times to study relationship with durations of workdays. Can J Anesth. 2013;60:1070–6.CrossRefPubMed
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Dexter F, Epstein RH. Increased mean time from end of surgery to operating room exit in a historical cohort of cases with prolonged time to extubation. Anesth Analg. 2013;117:1453–9.CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
Analyses of Time to Recovery Including Time to Tracheal Extubation Need to Be Performed While Incorporating Their Probability Distribution
Authors
Franklin Dexter
Richard H. Epstein
Publication date
01-01-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Obesity Surgery / Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-017-3002-1

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