Thoracic surgery can cause significant pain and suffering. Appropriate analgesia is
important both for humanitarian reasons and to allow early mobilization and pulmonary …

Post-thoracotomy pain is one of the most severe types of postoperative pain. It can last up to
2 months and can become chronic in 30% of patients. Pain relief after thoracic surgery is of …

Thoracotomy is associated with significant acute postoperative pain and a high incidence of
development of chronic pain. Thoracic epidural analgesia has long been standard treatment …

Post-thoracotomy pain is the most severe form of pain after surgery and is continuously
exacerbated by ventilatory function. Due to the multiplicity of nociceptive inputs from the …

Background: Acute postoperative pain can cause detrimental effects on multiple organ
systems, leading to chronic pain syndromes. Objective: To compare thoracic epidural block …

Publications on post-thoracotomy pain control obtained by Medline search were reviewed
from June 1997 to July 1998. The main focus points in the past year were the effect of new …

Goto. Pain control after thoracic surgery demonstrated the absence of any significant
differences between the subpleural catheter and intraoperative ISI groups. On the other …

Pain after thoracotomy is very severe, probably the most severe pain experienced after
surgery. Thoracic epidural analgesia has greatly improved the pain experience and its …

Methods: The patients, scheduled for elective open-lung surgery, were included in the study.
Before the surgery eighteen patients had thoracic epidural cathether (ED group) and 17 …

Aim Epidural analgesia is considered to be the best method of pain relief after major surgery
despite its side-effects, which include hypotension, respiratory depression, urinary retention …