Intercostal nerve freezing technique in elderly patients after thoracic surgery effect.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Intercostal nerve freezing technique in elderly patients after thoracic surgery effect Of: Liu Lei Zhang Yi Zhi Xiuyi Liu Baodong [Keywords:] open heart surgery, incision pain, intercostal nerve freezing, analgesia, complications Complications in elderly patients after thoracotomy wound pain most direct relationship with, take a deep breath because of pain caused by limited and poor is caused by cough and expectoration of atelectasis and pulmonary infection in the important reasons. Safe and effective method of surgical pain resume play after a crucial role. because of the sensitivity of the elderly for drugs than the average patient is different from conventional methods for pain in elderly patients ineffective. intercostal nerve freezing technique as a new pain relief technology has been widely used in clinical. intercostal nerve freezing observed in this study postoperative pain in thoracotomy effect, and to assess in elderly patients with pulmonary complications after thoracotomy cases. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 General Information March 2006 to March 2009 in our department between the standard anesthesia posterolateral thoracotomy (including lobectomy, pneumonectomy, esophageal cancer, mediastinal tumor resection surgery of 100 cases, which weregt; 60 year-old elderly patients. randomly divided into two groups, 50 patients in each group, two groups were gender, age, method of operation that may affect the postoperative results of various factors, the difference was not significant (Pgt; 0.05). 1.2 Methods Observation group were treated with medical equipment Co., Ltd. Beijing Library Blue cryotherapy machine, after thoracotomy, respectively, from the spine to free the intercostal nerve roots next to the range up and down the two-incision of the intercostal nerve intercostal chest drain and place the intercostal nerves, a total of five. for cryotherapy, freezing time is 90 s, freezing temperature of -50 (1).