Regional anesthesia for thoracic surgery: a narrative review of indications and clinical considerations.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Surgical procedures involving incisions of the chest wall regularly pose challenges for intra- and postoperative analgesia. For many decades, opioids have been widely administered to target both, acute and subsequent chronic incisional pain. Opioids are potent and highly addictive drugs that can provide sufficient pain relief, but simultaneously cause unwanted effects ranging from nausea, vomiting and constipation to respiratory depression, sedation and even death. Multimodal analgesia consists of the administration of two or more medications or analgesia techniques that act by different mechanisms for providing analgesia. Thus, multimodal analgesia aims to improve pain relief while reducing opioid requirements and opioid-related side effects. Regional anes

SUBMITTER: Sertcakacilar G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9840019 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature