Kathmandu University medical journal (KUMJ)
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Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ) · Jan 2003
Case ReportsInterpleural catheter technique for perioperative pain management.
Management of pain in surgical patient is very crucial. It is more so in thoracic and upper abdominal surgery. Lots of technique and drugs have been used to control postoperative pain including thoracic epidural analgesia. ⋯ The whole perioperative and postoperative period was uneventful. The first series of patients in whom this technique was used was described by Murphy in 1983, (1) who used it in patients with multiple fractured ribs and in postoperative patients after gallbladder and kidney surgery. One year later, Reiestad and Kvalheim published their results of continuous intercostal nerve block for postoperative pain relief and presented their modification of the technique, which is now termed interpleural analgesia.