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Park and Kim: Post-thoracotomy Pain Control Using Bupivacaine
Original Article

The Ewha Medical Journal 1990; 13(3): 189-195.

Published online: 24 July 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1990.13.3.189

Post-thoracotomy Pain Control Using Bupivacaine

Young Sik Park, Kwang Ho Kim

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright © 1990. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Relief of the pain is important for reducing patient's discomfort and morbidity after thoracotomy. Post-thoracotomy pain was controlled by pharmacological blockage of the intercostal nerves with bupivacaine in 20 patients. Bupivacaine was infused intermittently through one inwelling cathter, which was placed in the pleural space during the thoracotomy. Pain was well controlled by this procedure.

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