Pretreatment with Pectoral Nerve Block II Is Effective for Reducing Pain in Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Table 3

Perioperative analgesic requirements.

Items	Groups		value
	PECS II	Placebo
Intraoperative application of fentanyl ( (%))
Yes	1 (5)	12 (60)	<0.05
No	19 (95)	8 (40)
Application of fentanyl in PACU ( (%))
Yes	0 (0)	7 (35)	>0.05
No	20 (100)	13 (65)
Time to first analgesia request ( (%))
≤4 h	4 (20)	15 (75)	<0.05
>4 h	16 (80)	5 (25)
Consumption of fentanyl in PCIA, , μg			<0.05
Total consumption of fentanyl, , μg			<0.05

All data values are shown as mean (standard deviations) or numbers (percentage). Time to first analgesia request: the first time that patients received the treatment of fentanyl after operation. Total consumption of fentanyl: included the dose of fentanyl used for rescue analgesia intraoperatively and within the PACU and the dose of fentanyl consumed in the intravenous analgesia pump within 24 hours.