-
surgical approaches to
performing a
thoracotomy. Some
common forms of
thoracotomies include:
Posterolateral thoracotomy is the most
common and traditional...
- A
resuscitative thoracotomy (sometimes
referred to as an
emergency department thoracotomy (EDT),
trauma thoracotomy or, colloquially, as "cracking the...
- D,
Pyati S (March 2017). "Perioperative
Ketamine Administration for
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Mathew SJ, Zarate...
- patients.
Originally developed as a less
invasive alternative to
emergency thoracotomy with
aortic cross clamping,
REBOA is
performed to gain
rapid control...
-
entourage rushed him to Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center,
where an
emergency thoracotomy was performed, but he was
pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. He was twenty-four...
-
pulmonary lobectomy is
performed through a poster-lateral
thoracotomy incision; over decades,
thoracotomy has
demonstrated its
effectiveness in
providing access...
- PMID 6116461.
Brown DL (November 1985). "Postoperative
analgesia following thoracotomy.
Danger of dela****
respiratory depression". Chest. 88 (5): 779–780. doi:10...
- of
persistent postoperative pain (PPP) from 3 to 18
months following thoracotomy and 3 to 12
months following caesarean. Low
quality evidence was found...
- incision.
Another approach can be
achieved with
bilateral anterior thoracotomies. Intraoperatively, lung
transplantation can be
performed with the use...
- Alternatively, the
cardiothoracic surgeon might directly open the
chest (
thoracotomy). If the
cancer is in the abdomen, the
doctor may
perform a laparoscopy...
