Different anesthetic techniques associated with different incidences of chronic post-thoracotomy pain: Low-dose remifentanil plus presurgical epidural analgesia is preferable to high-dose remifentanil with postsurgical epidural analgesia

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 608-616

  Salengros, Jean Corentin ^a   Huybrechts, Isabelle ^a   Ducart, Anne ^a   Faraoni, David ^a   Marsala, Corinne ^a   Barvais, Luc ^a   Cappello, Matteo ^a   Engelman, Edgard ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

chronic pain; epidural analgesia; post thoracotomy pain syndrome; preventative analgesia; remifentanil; thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; FENTANYL; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; POST THORACOTOMY PAIN SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PIPERIDINES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 77955709348     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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