Cryoablation Catheter Used in the Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation May Treat Chest Tube Pain: Engin Technique.
Engin MesutUfuk AydınAhmet Kağan AsYusuf AtaŞenol YavuzPublished in: Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery (2024)
Postoperative pain after cardiac surgery plays an important role in the patient's recovery process. In particular, pain at the chest tube site can negatively affect the comfort and recovery of these patients. Effective pain control minimizes the risk of many complications. Oral and intravenous analgesics, epidural anesthesia, paravertebral block, and intercostal nerve blockade are used in chest tube pain control. We routinely use the surgical cryoablation method in the presence of atrial fibrillation in the preoperative period of cardiac surgery in our clinic. Here we aimed to describe our method of using the cryoablation catheter for intercostal nerve blockade.
Keyphrases
- postoperative pain
- chronic pain
- atrial fibrillation
- pain management
- neuropathic pain
- cardiac surgery
- heart failure
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ultrasound guided
- left atrial
- chronic kidney disease
- primary care
- thoracic surgery
- prognostic factors
- patients undergoing
- coronary artery disease
- oral anticoagulants
- left ventricular
- risk factors
- direct oral anticoagulants
- high dose
- spinal cord injury