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MANAGING THE PAIN: Managing pain after a thoracotomy

...A THORACOTOMY, WHICH is a surgical incision into the thoracic cavity, is......Pain after a thoracotomy may be severe, depending on the type of incision and...
12/31/2008 | LPN2009

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Pain Management of Chronic Nonmalignant Neuropathic Pain

...A challenging case dealing with chronic neuropathic pain subsequent to thoracotomy syndrome and reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome is presented. Strategies and......psychological, and social distress. Chronic nonmalignant neuropathic pain resulting from thoracotomy syndrome and reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSDS) is frustrating to...
7/12/2002 | Home Healthcare Nurse

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CONTROLLING PAIN: Using thoracic epidural catheters for pain management

...has a thoracic epidural catheter for pain control after a thoracotomy. Does this catheter placement require different drugs than a lumbar......to manage pain in patients who've had a thoracotomy, abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, or abdominal surgery with a large...
10/12/2004 | Nursing2013

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Biventricular Pacing for Congestive Heart Failure

...failure patient. Biventricular pacing offers (surgically implanted leads implies a thoracotomy or mini-thoracotomy for an epicardial lead and not the preferred transvenous approach...
4/18/2003 | Critical Care Nursing Quarterly


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Too Sick Not to Exercise: Using a 6-Week, Home-Based Exercise Intervention for Cancer-Related Fatigue Self-management for Postsurgical Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients

...NSCLC during the critical transition from hospital to home after thoracotomy.Objective: The......for cancer-related fatigue (CRF) self-management for persons after thoracotomy for NSCLC transitioning from hospital to home....
4/26/2013 | Cancer Nursing

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Upper Quadrant Impairments Associated With Cancer Treatment

...incisions include the posterolateral, anterolateral, axillary, and muscle-sparing lateral thoracotomy, as well as the median sternotomy. The posterolateral thoracotomy is the historic gold standard but involves division of the...
8/5/2011 | Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation

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SELF TEST: I.V. therapy twisters

...old patient returns from the OR after undergoing a right thoracotomy. An I.V. solution of 5% dextrose in...
11/5/2003 | Nursing2013


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Management of the Patient: Undergoing Lung Transplantation An Intensive Care Perspective

...Single-lung transplantation is often performed through a posterolateral thoracotomy, although in some instances, an anterior axillary thoracotomy is performed. A pneumonectomy is then performed with care taken...
4/7/2011 | Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

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