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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-07-01
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| Series: | BMC Anesthesiology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12871-020-01093-9 |