Open AccessSegmental thoracic spinal has advantages over general anesthesia for breast cancer surgery
Author(s) -
SherifAhmed Abdelhamid,
MohamedHamdy Elakany
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anesthesia essays and researches
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0259-1162
DOI - 10.4103/0259-1162.123263
Subject(s) - medicine , anesthesia , pacu , breast cancer , fentanyl , surgery , breast surgery , axillary lymph node dissection , nausea , anesthetic , post anesthesia care unit , cancer , sentinel lymph node
Thoracic spinal anesthesia has been used for laparoscopic cholecystectomy and abdominal surgeries, but not in breast surgery. The present study compared this technique with general anesthesia in breast cancer surgeries.
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