Your Messages Inbox
Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income 3. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors 4. Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System 5. Doctors and the DEA Free full text
Top Ten Searches
epidural double lumen lidoderm scopolamine phenylepherene sciatica est pain control pregnancy intubationYour Article Summary
See Latest ArticlesA comparison of epidural vs. paravertebral blockade in thoracic surgery
Minerva Anestesiologica, 11/09/09
Messina M et al. – Epidural analgesia is considered to be the best method of pain relief after major surgery despite its side–effects, which include hypotension, respiratory depression, urinary retention, incomplete or failed block, and, in rare cases, paraplegia. Epidural analgesia is more efficient than paravertebral continuous block at reducing pain after thoracic surgery.
Related Articles
The Influence of Surgeon Specialty on Outcomes in General Thoracic Surgery: A National Sample 1996 to 2005
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 10/23/09
Relevance Score: 69%
Chest physiotherapy with positive expiratory pressure breathing after abdominal and thoracic surgery: a systematic review
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 11/02/09
Relevance Score: 68%
The Clinical Application of Video Mediastinoscopy and CT in the N Staging of Preoperative Lung Cancer
Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 10/23/09
Relevance Score: 68%
A Propensity-Matched Comparison of the Incidence of New-Onset Postoperative Atrial Arrhythmias in Cardiac and Noncardiac Thoracic Surgery Patients
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 10/16/09
Relevance Score: 68%
Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Excision of Mediastinal Hemangioma
Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, 11/13/09
Relevance Score: 67%
Today in Cardiothoracic...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Application of prophylactic gel-pads for transcutaneous pacing in patients with complete right bundle-branch block with axis deviation when surgical procedures are performed: 10-year experience from a single Japanese university hospital
Journal of Anesthesia, 12/18/09
Epidural Analgesia Improves Outcome in Cardiac Surgery: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 12/15/09
Cardiac Index Validation Using the Pressure Recording Analytic Method in Unstable Patients
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 12/15/09
Today in Regional...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Complications associated with anesthesia administration for dental treatment in a special needs clinic
Special Care in Dentistry, 12/16/09
Influence of Sedation on Patients' Perceptions and Recovery in Patients Undergoing Minor Perianal Procedures under Spinal Saddle Block
Medical Principles and Practice, 12/15/09
Low-dose spinal hyperbaric bupivacaine for adult anorectal surgery: a double-blinded, randomized, controlled study
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 12/15/09
Article Search
Sponsor