TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rizzi, Alessandro
AU  - Raveglia, Federico
AU  - Scarci, Marco
AU  - Cioffi, Ugo
AU  - Baisi, Alessandro
PY  - 2019
TI  - The best strategy to control pain after thoracic surgery: multimodal strategy against pain
JF  - Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery; Vol 4 (December 2019): Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery
Y2  - 2019
KW  - 
N2  - Pain has always been a concerning and main topic in thoracic surgery. Thoracotomy (was) is the traditional access to reach pleural cavity. This allows to have a very great management of all the thoracic organs through a direct and wide costal split. There are different types of thoracotomies that can be done; each gives different exposure of the thorax and for every case surgeons must be able to adopt one of those for specific necessities (1-9). Surgical approach must be chosen not only on operative target but also evaluating the impact on patient recovery and kind of analgesic therapy available and applicable. A lot of modified procedures, both surgical and analgesic, have been studied and introduced (2); the aim was to reduce the impact on chest wall and subsequently the arise of pain, both acute and chronic that are actually the most frequent and dreadful morbidity (3,4).
UR  - https://vats.amegroups.org/article/view/5300