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Local infusion of bupivacaine combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia provides better pain relief than intravenous patient-controlled analgesia.

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1 Local infusion of bupivacaine combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia provides better pain relief than intravenous patient-controlled analgesia alone in patients undergoing minimally invasive cardiac surgery  Kuan-Ming Chiu, MD, Chia-Chan Wu, MD, Ming-Jiuh Wang, MD, PhD, Cheng-Wei Lu, MD, Jiann-Shing Shieh, PhD, Tzu-Yu Lin, MD, Shu-Hsun Chu, MD  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 135, Issue 6, Pages (June 2008) DOI: /j.jtcvs Copyright © 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Placement of the epidural catheter in the wound and the fixed catheter circled with 5–0 Prolene polypropylene (Ethicon, Inc, Somerville, NJ). The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jtcvs ) Copyright © 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions


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