Pain relief 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 ...

Efficacy of continuous intercostal bupivacaine for pain relief after thoracotomy.

We studied 20 patients undergoing thoracotomy, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial of intercostal bupivacaine. Bupivacaine 0.25% was infused at 5 ml h-1 through each of two catheters placed in the intercostal space at operation. Mean (95% confidence limits) 24-h requirements for morphine from a patient-controlled analgesia device were 29 (22-37) mg during bupivacaine infusion ...

Perioperative Pregabalin for Postoperative Pain Relief after Thoracotomy

Background: Pregabalin is efective both at controlling postoperative pain and preventing chronic neuropathic pain. Local anaesthetic iniltration is a simple and inexpensive method to provide postoperative analgesia. In this study we tested the hypothesis that pregabalin administered perioperatively combined with continuous wound infusion will aid better the post-thoracotomy pain management comp...

Pain control after thoracotomy.