A comparison of thoracic or lumbar patient-controlled epidural analgesia methods after thoracic surgery

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sagiroglu, Gonul ^a   Meydan, Burhan ^b   Copuroglu, Elif ^a   Baysal, Ayse ^c   Yoruk, Yener ^a   Altemur Karamustafaoglu, Yekta ^a   Huseyin, Serhat ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Chest Diseases Department Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Hospital   (Turkey)

^c stanbul Ko uyolu Yüksek htisas Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiac enzymes; Lumbar epidural analgesia; Thoracic epidural analgesia; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; MORPHINE; TROPONIN; BUPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ERUPTION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR PATIENT CONTROLLED EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; THORACIC PATIENT CONTROLLED EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE SCORES AT COUGHING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE SCORES AT REST; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FOLLOW UP; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; COUGHING; EPIDURAL CATHETER; HEMODYNAMICS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 84902589318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-12-96     Document Type: Article

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