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Chest, Vol 88, 779-780, Copyright © 1985 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Postoperative analgesia following thoracotomy. Danger of delayed respiratory depression

DL Brown

Narcotic anesthesia is commonly used for patients with depressed myocardial function. Post-thoracotomy analgesia is increasingly provided by epidural narcotic analgesia. Combination of the two techniques may have resulted in respiratory depression and death in a 66-year-old ischemic heart disease patient following thoracotomy.




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