Anaes SAQs · Thoracic anaesthesia & one-lung ventilation
The post-thoracotomy analgesia
Final SAQ — the thoracic epidural (the gold-standard, the bilateral, the sympathetic-blockade-hypotension); the paravertebral (the unilateral, the less-hypotension, the similar-analgesia); the ESP/SERRA (the newer); the multimodal; the PCA.
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Discuss the postoperative analgesia options for the thoracic surgery (the thoracic epidural, the paravertebral, the fascial-plane blocks), and their advantages and disadvantages.
Question
Discuss the postoperative analgesia options for the thoracic surgery (the thoracic epidural, the paravertebral, the fascial-plane blocks), and their advantages and disadvantages.
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- [2]Vegh T, et al. Pharmacology of thoracic anesthesia. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol, 2026.PMID 41284736
- [41284737]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.