Pain after thoracotomy

Pain control after thoracotomy.

Pain Relief Methods after Thoracotomy

Background: Thoracotomy is one of the surgical operations which causes severe pain. In fact, this pain is one of the most excruciating pains caused by surgical operations. Different procedures are performed to decrease this pain which is associated with significant physiologic, mental and pathologic complications. Each of these procedures has its own advantage and disadvantages. In many centers...

The Relief of Pain after Thoracotomy.

It has been shown that when 1 % lignocaine in 10% Dextraven with 1:250,000 adrenaline is injected into the correct site at the end of an intrathoracic operation there is relief of pain for four to 16 hours (Loder, 1960). Patients now receive these injections routinely at the Thoracic Surgical Centre at Papworth. The exceptions are children under the age of 7 years, patients with coarctation of ...

Post Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome

Post-thoracotomy pain is one of the most severe and long lasting complications after surgery (1-4) which acutely contributes to limit normal respiratory activity impairing the sputum clearance and reducing ventilatory function (5). Along with limb amputation, thoracotomy is the surgical procedure with the highest risk of severe and long lasting acute postoperative pain (6). Moreover, a chronic ...

Post Thoracotomy Pain Management

Introduction The pathway of a pain impulse starts with the primary afferent nerve fibers (C and Aδ) whose axons end in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Nociceptive information is passed to the contralateral side of the spinal cord and, after synapsing, ascends in the anterolateral system as spinothalamic tracts. The primary areas of the brain that respond to pain stimuli are the somatosensor...