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Filter by:Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive surgery that utilizes camera based scopes and specialized instruments through keyhole sized ports to remove lesions in the thoracic cavity. Despite reduced surgical trauma compared to the traditional thoracotomy approach, patients continued to experience moderate to severe postoperative pain. Pain medication such as opioids is commonly utilized for postoperative pain control but is associated with side effects. The use of nerve blocks, such as the recently described erector spinae plane block (ESPB) has been shown in case reports to reduce pain and thus has the potential to improve patient recovery and decrease the risk of pulmonary complication. This study aims to investigate the analgesic effect of ESPB in managing pain following VATS.
Video assisted thoracic surgery utilizes small instruments to perform complicated thoracic surgeries. This minimally invasive technique leaves small wounds thus facilitate recovery. Traditionally, thoracic surgery required general anesthesia with double lumen endobronchial tube to facilitate one-lung ventilation. However, as anesthesia techniques improve, video assisted thoracic surgery can be achieved with minimal sedation and without intubation. Thoracic surgeries involve excision of lung tissue thus impair post-operative lung function, putting patients at high risk of cardiopulmonary complications. Non-intubate thoracic surgeries can avoid this complication by avoiding general anesthesia and intubation. Transnasal humidified rapid-insufflation ventilator exchange offers 30-50 L/min oxygen via nasal cannula, thus provide safe and comfortable way of oxygen supplementation. It is useful in intravenous sedated patients since they are prone to hypoxia from respiratory suppression and upper airway obstruction. This study is a matched case-control study to compare the efficacy and safety of Transnasal humidified rapid-insufflation ventilator exchange in non-intubated thoracic surgery versus double lumen endobronchial tube intubated general anesthesia.
There are specific guidelines for choice of Lt DLT size in correlation to patient's height and tracheal diameter on chest X-ray/CT scan. Accordingly to these criteria the RT DLT size is determined. Should the criteria for determining the appropriate size be the same for Rt and Lt DLT?