Open AccessEvaluation of safety and efficacy of regional anesthesia compared with general anesthesia in thoracoscopic lung biopsy procedure on patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Author(s) -
Waseem Hajjar,
Sami Alnassar,
Ghaida S Al-Sugair,
Alaa Al-Oqail,
Shahd Al-Mansour,
Rand Al-Haweel,
Adnan W Hajjar
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
saudi journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1658-354X
pISSN - 0975-3125
DOI - 10.4103/sja.sja_265_17
Subject(s) - medicine , thoracoscopy , idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis , lung biopsy , surgery , biopsy , chest tube , lung , cardiothoracic surgery , interstitial lung disease , video assisted thoracoscopic surgery , anesthesia , radiology , pneumothorax
Interstitial lung diseases are diseases that need histology diagnosis or obtaining a lung biopsy to establish the diagnosis. Surgical biopsies are performed usually using the thoracoscopy technique under general anesthesia (GA) although this procedure is still associated with morbidity rate. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness and safety of regional anesthesia (RA) compared with GA in thoracoscopic lung biopsy procedures done on patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).