Does thoracic epidural analgesia with morphine prevent postthoracotomy pain syndrome : a survey of 159 patients?
Epidural morphine for postoperative analgesia that continued for 3 days appeared to have no effect in the prevention of PTPS.
The incidence of delayed ICH in our study was 1%. However, none of the delayed findings were clinically significant. Among patients on ACAP therapy with a negative CT1 and a normal or unchanged neurologic examination, a routine CT2 is unnecessary. We recommend a period of observation to recognize those patients with symptoms that could be due to delayed ICH.