Effectiveness of wound infusion of 0.2% ropivacaine by patient control analgesia pump after minithoracotomy aortic valve replacement: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Effectiveness of wound infusion of 0.2% ropivacaine by patient control analgesia pump after minithoracotomy aortic valve replacement: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Abstract Background Local anesthetic wound infusion has become an invaluable technique in multimodal analgesia. The effectiveness of wound infusion of 0.2% ropivacaine delivered by patient controlled analgesia (PCA) pump has not been evaluated in minimally invasive cardiac surgery. We tested the hyp...

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Main Authors: Gordan Mijovski, Matej Podbregar, Juš Kšela, Matej Jenko, Maja Šoštarič
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:BMC Anesthesiology
Subjects:
Wound catheter
PCA
AVR
Minithoracotomy
Multimodal analgesia
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12871-020-01093-9

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