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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2002, Vol. 89, No. 1 184-185
© 2002 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

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Methods of post-thoracotomy analgesia

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Editor—I have serious misgivings about Blanloeil and colleagues’1 paper on post-thoracotomy analgesia by epidural infusion of methylprednisolone. As far as I am aware, the evidence and opinion of most anaesthetists is that local anaesthetic and opioid via a thoracic epidural is a satisfactory method of perioperative analgesia for thoracotomy, and may indeed be better than patient controlled i.v. opioid analgesia.2–5

In this study,1 patients were . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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