Can chronic poststernotomy pain after cardiac valve replacement be reduced using thoracic epidural analgesia?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 871-874

  Jensen, Marianne Kjaer ^a   Andersen, C ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cardiac valve surgery; Chronic poststernotomy pain; Sternotomy; TEA; Thoracic epidural analgesia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL DERIVATIVE; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; STERNUM; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 3342918968     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0001-5172.2004.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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