Postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing robot-assisted thoracic surgery: a comparison between thoracic epidural analgesia and intercostal nerve block combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia.

Journal: Annals of palliative medicine

PMID: 33440971

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Recently, robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is increasingly applied to lung or mediastinal tumor surgery. However, appropriate methods of postoperative analgesia for RATS have not been studied.

Authors

Izumi Kawagoe

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. ikawago@juntendo.ac.jp.
Masakazu Hayashida

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Daizoh Satoh

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Tsukasa Kochiyama

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Masataka Fukuda

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Jun Kishii

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Keywords

Analgesia, Epidural Analgesia, Patient-Controlled Analgesics, Opioid Anesthesia, Epidural Humans Intercostal Nerves Pain, Postoperative Prospective Studies Retrospective Studies Robotics Thoracic Surgery

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Postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing robot-assisted thoracic surgery: a comparison between thoracic epidural analgesia and intercostal nerve block combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia.

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