Secondary outcomes
lung injury, deaths, kidney injury
INFLAMMATION, ACUTE PANCREATITIS
By day 30, deaths were reported for 6 of 65 patients (9%) and 10 of 70 patients (14%) in the intervention and control groups, respectively (unadjusted relative risk, 0.65; 95% CI 0.25–1.68; Attenuations of acute systemic inflammation, lung injury, and kidney injury were hypothesized to be part of the beneficial effect of epidural analgesia in acute pancreatitis. However, such effects did not occur (Table 