Spinal Anesthesia in Thoracic Surgery.*

Shields, Harry J.

doi:10.1213/00000539-193511000-00060

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“…This preemptive sensory block could have a very positive impact on the insurgence of post-surgical chronic pain syndromes. In addition, thanks to the reduced surgical invasivity and the improved knowledge of the physiology of ventilation, non-intubated lung surgery is nowadays a reality (13) [truth be told, there are precedents: in the 1930s spinal thoracic anesthesia was used in awake patients (14), though in a setting where safety standards were hardly what they are today, and reports of such practices are now read more for historical curiosity than for scientific comparison].…”

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