Acute pain management after thoracoscopic lung resection: a systematic review and explorative meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Pain after thoracoscopic surgery may increase the incidence of postoperative complications and impair recovery. Guidelines lack consensus regarding postoperative analgesia. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the mean pain scores of different analgesic techniques (thoracic epidural analgesia, continuous or single-shot unilateral regional analgesia and only systemic analgesia) after thoracoscopic anatomical lung resection.

Methods

Medline, Embase and Cochrane databases were searched until 1 October 2022. Patients undergoing at least >70% anatomical resections through thoracoscopy reporting postoperative pain scores were included. Due to a high inter-study variability an explorative meta-analysis next to an analytic meta-analysis was perf

SUBMITTER: Spaans LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9931052 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature