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 | Zendy

Izumi Kawagoe | Zendy; Masakazu Hayashida | Zendy; Daizoh Satoh | Zendy; Tsukasa Kochiyama | Zendy; Masataka Fukuda | Zendy; Jun Kishii | Zendy

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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

Author(s) -

Izumi Kawagoe,

Masakazu Hayashida,

Daizoh Satoh,

Tsukasa Kochiyama,

Masataka Fukuda,

Jun Kishii

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

annals of palliative medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 2224-5839

pISSN - 2224-5820

DOI - 10.21037/apm-20-1607

Subject(s) - medicine , intercostal nerves , anesthesia , cardiothoracic surgery , nerve block , block (permutation group theory) , epidural block , surgery , geometry , mathematics

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.

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