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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1989; 12(1):51-56

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1989.12.1.51

Original Article

Post-thoracotomy Pain Control Using Bupivacaine

Young Sik Park, Kwang Ho Kim
Corresponding author: Kwang Ho Kim. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascuair Surgery, College of Mediciene, Ewha Womans University

Copyright ⓒ 1989. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Relief of the pain is important for reducing patient's discomfort and morbidity after thoracotomy. Post-thoracotomy pain was controlled by pharmacological blockage of the intercostal nerves with bupivacaine in 20 patients. Bupivacaine was infused intermittently through one inwelling cathter, which was placed in the pleural space during the thoracotomy. Pain was well controlled by this procedure.