The role of intercostal cryoanalgesia in post-thoracotomy analgesia

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 814-818

  Sepsas, Evangelos ^a   Misthos, Panagiotis ^a   Anagnostopulu, Maria ^a   Toparlaki, Olga ^a   Voyagis, Gregorios ^a   Kakaris, Stamatios ^a  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cryonalgesia; Post thoracotomy pain; Pulmonary function tests

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CELECOXIB; CODEINE; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SEVOFLURANE; TRAMADOL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ACIDOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CRYOANESTHESIA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG USE; EPIGASTRIC DISTENSION; FEMALE; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PH; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORACOTOMY; VERBAL ANALOGUE SCALE; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CRYOTHERAPY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GREECE; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRYOTHERAPY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GREECE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878176926     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs516     Document Type: Article

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