@article{VATS5300,
author = {Alessandro Rizzi and Federico Raveglia and Marco Scarci and Ugo Cioffi and Alessandro Baisi},
title = {The best strategy to control pain after thoracic surgery: multimodal strategy against pain},
journal = {Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery},
volume = {4},
number = {0},
year = {2019},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Pain has always been a concerning and main topic in thoracic surgery. Thoracotomy (was) is the traditional access to reach pleural cavity. This allows to have a very great management of all the thoracic organs through a direct and wide costal split. There are different types of thoracotomies that can be done; each gives different exposure of the thorax and for every case surgeons must be able to adopt one of those for specific necessities (1-9). Surgical approach must be chosen not only on operative target but also evaluating the impact on patient recovery and kind of analgesic therapy available and applicable. A lot of modified procedures, both surgical and analgesic, have been studied and introduced (2); the aim was to reduce the impact on chest wall and subsequently the arise of pain, both acute and chronic that are actually the most frequent and dreadful morbidity (3,4).},
issn = {2519-0792}, url = {https://vats.amegroups.org/article/view/5300}
}