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Gastrointestinal motility following thoracic surgery: the effect of thoracic epidural analgesia. A randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUNDS: Impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) motility is an undesirable but inevitable consequence of surgery. This prospective randomised controlled study tested the hypothesis that postoperative thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA) with ropivacaine or a combination of ropivacaine and morphine acc...

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Autores principales: Zoumprouli, Argyro, Chatzimichali, Aikaterini, Papadimitriou, Stamatios, Papaioannou, Alexandra, Xynos, Evaghelos, Askitopoulou, Helen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5644078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29037157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-017-0427-y