Postoperative management using intensive patient-controlled epidural analgesia and early rehabilitation after an esophagectomy

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 476-480

  Saeki, Hiroshi ^a,b   Ishimura, Hiroshi ^a   Higashi, Hidefumi ^a   Kitagawa, Dai ^a   Tanaka, Junko ^a   Maruyama, Riichiroh ^a   Katoh, Hidenori ^a   Shimazoe, Hirofumi ^a   Yamauchi, Kouta ^a   Ayabe, Hitoshi ^a   Kakeji, Yoshihiro ^b   Morita, Masaru ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^b  

^a STEEL MEMORIAL YAWATA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophagectomy; Hospital stay; Patient controlled analgesia; Postoperative complications; Thoracic epidural analgesia

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; GABEXATE MESILATE; MEPIVACAINE; MORPHINE; PENTAZOCINE; ROPIVACAINE; SIVELESTAT;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCISION; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REHABILITATION CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PENTAZOCINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 66649135827     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3924-2     Document Type: Article

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