Lidocaine IV vs placebo or no treatment: Gastrointestinal recovery
It is very uncertain whether intravenous (IV) lidocaine changes gastrointestinal recovery compared with placebo or no treatment (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Intravenous (IV) lidocaine vs placebo or no treatment Gastrointestinal recovery · adult patients undergoing any elective or urgent surgical procedure under general anaesthesia It is very uncertain whether intravenous (IV) lidocaine changes gastrointestinal recovery compared with placebo or no treatment (very low certainty). Continuous intravenous perioperative lidocaine infusion for postoperative pain and recovery in adults (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.37 [0.15, 0.87] | 4 studies · 273 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous intravenous perioperative lidocaine infusion for postoperative pain and recovery in adults 2018 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.