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Acute Postoperative Pain Control Following Thoracic Surgery

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Abstract

Thoracotomy is among the most painful of all surgical incisions. Necessary motions of respiration exacerbate that pain. It is no surprise that the most frequent perioperative complications following thoracic surgery are pulmonary in nature, or that good control of thoracotomy pain improves pulmonary outcome.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg General Hospital, Salzburg, Austria

    Peter Gerner MD (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Harvard Medical School General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Peter Gerner MD (Associate Professor of Anaesthesia)

  3. Division of Thoracic Anaesthesia Department of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Philip M. Hartigan MD (Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School Director)

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Gerner, P., Gerner, P., Hartigan, P.M. (2012). Acute Postoperative Pain Control Following Thoracic Surgery. In: Hartigan, P. (eds) Practical Handbook of Thoracic Anesthesia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88493-6_37

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