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Prospective randomized trial of high thoracic epidural analgesia for coronary artery bypass surgery  Colin Royse, MBBS, MD, Alistair Royse, MBBS, MD,

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1 Prospective randomized trial of high thoracic epidural analgesia for coronary artery bypass surgery 
Colin Royse, MBBS, MD, Alistair Royse, MBBS, MD, Paul Soeding, MBBS, Duncan Blake, MBBS, PhD, Jenny Pang, RN  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 75, Issue 1, Pages (January 2003) DOI: /S (02)

2 Fig 1 Pain scores at rest and with coughing on first 3 postoperative days. Visual analogue pain score (0 = no pain and 10 = the worst pain). The solid lines are the mean ± 2 standard deviations to indicate the range of pain scores; and the shaded boxes are the 95% confidence intervals of the mean. (HTEA = high thoracic epidural analgesia.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

3 Fig 2 Degree of cooperation with postoperative physiotherapy. Physiotherapy cooperation was better with high thoracic epidural analgesic (HTEA) (p < 0.001). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )


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