Question · asked by 1 review
Lidocaine IV vs placebo or no treatment: Patient‐reported pain intensity or pain relief (VAS, NRS or categorical scale)
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Intravenous (IV) lidocaine vs placebo or no treatment Pain (VAS 0 to 10 cm, 0 to 100 mm, NRS 0 to 10) · adult patients undergoing any elective or urgent surgical procedure under general anaesthesia Continuous intravenous perioperative lidocaine infusion for postoperative pain and recovery in adults (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 29 studies · 1656 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.