TY  - JOUR
T1  - EPidural anesthesia in patients undergoing thoracic surgery
AU  - Temeck BK, Schafer PW, Park WY, Harmon J
Y1  - 1989/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.1989.01410040025004
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 415
EP  - 418
VL  - 124
IS  - 4
N2  - • Epidural anesthesia has been reported to exert beneficial effects in surgical procedures. Over the past 3 years at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Washington, DC, thoracic surgical procedures have been done using a combined technique of epidural anesthesia with light general anesthesia. A retrospective review of this experience from January 1984 to November 1987 was done in 90 consecutive patients. Postoperative extubation of patients was accomplished immediately in 32%, within 1 hour in 34%, within 3 hours in 28%, within 18 hours in 4%, and was prolonged in only 1% of patients. Mortality was 2% and morbidity was 3%. This analysis indicates that the technique of epidural anesthesia with light general anesthesia provided satisfactory anesthesia with low mortality and morbidity in a high-risk group of patients undergoing surgery.(Arch Surg. 1989;124:415-418)
SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1989.01410040025004
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1989.01410040025004
ER  -