Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jan 2013
Dual-epidural catheter technique and perioperative outcomes after Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy.
Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy is associated with significant postoperative analgesic requirements and perioperative complications. A dual-epidural technique may improve perioperative outcomes compared with single thoracic epidural analgesia. ⋯ The DEC technique improved postoperative analgesia and reduced the incidence of major postoperative complications and hospital length of stay in patients undergoing Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy. Future studies should evaluate the efficacy of this technique in a controlled randomized clinical trial.