The Effects of Three Different Analgesia Techniques on Long-Term Postthoracotomy Pain
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Vol. 94 (1) , 11-15
- https://doi.org/10.1213/00000539-200201000-00003
Abstract
In this clinical, randomized, prospective study, we compared the effects of three different analgesia techniques (thoracic epidural analgesia [TEA] with and without preoperative initiation and IV patient-controlled analgesia [IV-PCA]) on postthoracotomy pain in 69 patients. In two groups, a thoracicKeywords
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