Influence on number of top-ups after implementing patient controlled epidural analgesia: A cohort study.

Influence on number of top-ups after implementing patient controlled epidural analgesia: A cohort study.

Postoperative epidural analgesia often needs rate readjustment using top-ups. Patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) is said to reduce the requirement of epidural top-ups when compared to continuous epidural analgesia (CEA). We compared CEA and PCEA in major thoracic and abdominal surgery, in...

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Main Authors: Ganapathy van Samkar, Henning Hermanns, Philipp Lirk, Markus W Hollmann, Markus F Stevens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5646815?pdf=render

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