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Management of pain in thoracic surgery.
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1993
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Severe PainPain MedicinePerioperative MedicineSurgeryThoracic SpinePain ManagementHealth SciencesInterventional Pain MedicinePostoperative Pain ManagementPulmonary FunctionPerioperative PainAnesthesia PracticePreoperative PainIneffective CoughPain ResearchThoracic SurgeryAnesthesiaMedicineAnesthesiology
Severe pain after thoracotomy is the most important factor responsible for ineffective ventilation, ineffective cough, and impaired ability to sigh and to breathe deeply. Effective analgesia minimizes and may even reverse the expected decline in pulmonary function and also prevents postoperative pulmonary complications.