Mengya Yang, Danmin Wang, Xia Xu, Xiaobo Yu, Hefei Xu, Zhaoqiang Zeng, Jingwei Dai
BACKGROUND: Thoracic surgery without general anesthesia can be traced back to the First World War, and thoracic epidural block was used to complete the operation due to a large number of patients with gunshot wounds who needed emergency thoracic surgery. By reducing the intraoperative opioid dose, intraoperative and postoperative opioid-related adverse events such as respiratory depression, nausea and vomiting, delirium, hyperalgesia, and other side effects can be reduced to the benefit of patients...
April 19, 2024: Medicine (Baltimore)