Thoracic epidural or paravertebral catheter for analgesia after lung resection: Is the outcome different?

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-82

  Elsayed, Hany ^a,b   McKevith, James ^a   McShane, James ^a   Scawn, Nigel ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

paravertebral block; postthoracotomy pain; thoracic epidural

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BODY MASS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHEST INFECTION; COMORBIDITY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE BLOCK; PARAVERTEBRAL CATHETER BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUCTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; TRACHEOSTOMY; WEDGE RESECTION;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855324469     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: 15328422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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