<p>Postoperative Thoracic Epidural Analgesia: Adverse Events from a Single-Center Series of 3126 Patients</p>
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Thoracic epidural analgesia
We read with great interest the editorial by Kamming and Davies [1] regarding the choice of thoracic epidural anaesthesia in cardiac surgery. While the authors provided an interesting analysis, we believe their conclusion regarding the 50% chance of this technique’s failure warrants further comment. Kamming and Davies reported that in two large studies [2,3] ‘epidurals have failed to achieve ad...
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To the Editor:—In a recent letter, Erickson and Lanier reported on a useful method to preoxygenate claustrophobic patients who will not tolerate a facemask, by having the patients hold the L-connector of the anesthesia circuit in their mouth. They may be interested to know that an identical method, complete with an almost identical photograph, was published as a correspondence by Keifer and Sti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Local and Regional Anesthesia
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1178-7112
DOI: 10.2147/lra.s272410