Background:Postoperative pulmonary complications often lead to increased mortality and financial burden.Residual paralysis plays a critical role in postoperative pulmonary complications.This meta-analysis was performe...Background:Postoperative pulmonary complications often lead to increased mortality and financial burden.Residual paralysis plays a critical role in postoperative pulmonary complications.This meta-analysis was performed to determine whether sugammadex overmatches neostigmine in reducing postoperative pulmonary complications.Methods:PubMed,Embase,Web of Science,Medline through Ovid,Cochrane Library,Wanfang,China National Knowledge Infrastructure,and Chinese BioMedical Literature Databases were searched from their inception to 24 June,2021.Random effects models were used for all analyses.Cochrane risk of bias tool was used to assess the quality of RCTs,while Newcastle Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale was used to assess for the quality of cohort studies.Results:Seventeen studies were included in the meta-analysis.Pooled data from cohort studies showed reversing neuromuscular blocking with sugammadex had less risk of compound postoperative pulmonary complications(relative risk[RR]:0.73;95%confidence interval[CI]:0.60-0.89;P=0.002;I^(2)=81%),pneumonia(RR:0.64;95%CI:0.48-0.86;I^(2)=42%)and respiratory failure(RR:0.48;95%CI:0.41-0.56;I^(2)=0%).However,pooled data from RCTs did not show any difference between the two groups in pneumonia(RR:0.58;95%CI:0.24-1.40;I^(2)=0%)and no respiratory failure was reported in the included RCTs.The difference was not found between sugammadex and neostigmine about atelectasis in pooled data from either RCTs(RR:0.85;95%CI:0.69-1.05;I^(2)=0%)or cohort studies(RR:1.01;95%CI:0.87-1.18;I^(2)=0%).Conclusion:The evidence of superiority of sugammadex was limited by the confounding factors in cohort studies and small scale of RCTs.Whether sugammadex precedes neostigmine in preventing pulmonary complications after surgery is still unknown.Well-designed RCTs with large scale are needed.Registration:PROSPERO(https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/);CRD 42020191575.展开更多
基金Sichuan Science and Technology Program(Nos.2020YFS0188 and 2020YJ0283)
文摘Background:Postoperative pulmonary complications often lead to increased mortality and financial burden.Residual paralysis plays a critical role in postoperative pulmonary complications.This meta-analysis was performed to determine whether sugammadex overmatches neostigmine in reducing postoperative pulmonary complications.Methods:PubMed,Embase,Web of Science,Medline through Ovid,Cochrane Library,Wanfang,China National Knowledge Infrastructure,and Chinese BioMedical Literature Databases were searched from their inception to 24 June,2021.Random effects models were used for all analyses.Cochrane risk of bias tool was used to assess the quality of RCTs,while Newcastle Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale was used to assess for the quality of cohort studies.Results:Seventeen studies were included in the meta-analysis.Pooled data from cohort studies showed reversing neuromuscular blocking with sugammadex had less risk of compound postoperative pulmonary complications(relative risk[RR]:0.73;95%confidence interval[CI]:0.60-0.89;P=0.002;I^(2)=81%),pneumonia(RR:0.64;95%CI:0.48-0.86;I^(2)=42%)and respiratory failure(RR:0.48;95%CI:0.41-0.56;I^(2)=0%).However,pooled data from RCTs did not show any difference between the two groups in pneumonia(RR:0.58;95%CI:0.24-1.40;I^(2)=0%)and no respiratory failure was reported in the included RCTs.The difference was not found between sugammadex and neostigmine about atelectasis in pooled data from either RCTs(RR:0.85;95%CI:0.69-1.05;I^(2)=0%)or cohort studies(RR:1.01;95%CI:0.87-1.18;I^(2)=0%).Conclusion:The evidence of superiority of sugammadex was limited by the confounding factors in cohort studies and small scale of RCTs.Whether sugammadex precedes neostigmine in preventing pulmonary complications after surgery is still unknown.Well-designed RCTs with large scale are needed.Registration:PROSPERO(https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/);CRD 42020191575.
