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Effects of preemptive epidural analgesia on post-thoracotomy pain.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether preemptive thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA) initiated before surgical incision would reduce the severity of acute post-thoracotomy pain and the incidence of chronic post-thoracotomy pain.