Pain management and safety profiles after preoperative vs postoperative thoracic epidural insertion for bilateral lung transplantation.

Andrea L AxtellElbert E HengAmy G FiedlerSerguei MelnitchoukDavid A D'AlessandroGeorge TolisTodd AstorAdam A DaliaGaston CudemusMauricio A Villavicencio

Published in: Clinical transplantation (2018)

Preoperative thoracic epidural placement provides improved analgesia without increased morbidity following lung transplantation.

Keyphrases

pain management
spinal cord
patients undergoing
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
chronic pain
spinal cord injury
ultrasound guided
case report