Different anesthetic techniques associated with different incidences of chronic post-thoracotomy pain: low-dose remifentanil plus presurgical epidural analgesia is preferable to high-dose remifentanil with postsurgical epidural analgesia.

Salengros, Jean-Corentin; Huybrechts, Isabelle; Ducart, Anne; Faraoni, David; Marsala, Corinne; Barvais, Luc; Cappello, Matteo; Engelman, Edgard

Salengros, Jean-Corentin; Huybrechts, Isabelle; Ducart, Anne; Faraoni, David; Marsala, Corinne; Barvais, Luc; Cappello, Matteo; Engelman, Edgard.

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Salengros JC; Department of Anesthesiology, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth ; 24(4): 608-16, 2010 Aug.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20005744

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Analgesia, Epidural; Pain, Postoperative/epidemiology; Pain, Postoperative/prevention & control; Piperidines/administration & dosage; Preoperative Care/methods; Thoracotomy/adverse effects; Aged; Analgesia, Epidural/adverse effects; Anesthetics/administration & dosage; Chronic Disease; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Therapy, Combination; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Incidence; Male; Middle Aged; Pain Measurement/drug effects; Pain Measurement/methods; Pain, Postoperative/etiology; Prospective Studies; Remifentanil

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pain, Postoperative / Piperidines / Preoperative Care / Thoracotomy / Analgesia, Epidural Type of study: Clinical_trials / Etiology_studies / Incidence_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Aged / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Language: En Journal: J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth Journal subject: ANESTESIOLOGIA / CARDIOLOGIA Year: 2010 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Belgium Country of publication: United States

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