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PROSPECT Publications: Open Thoracotomy

Current review:

Lemoine A, Alber A, Joshi GP, Van de Velde M, Dewinter G, Pogatzki-Zahn E, Bonnet M-P, on behalf of the PROSPECT Working Group of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy.

Pain management after open thoracotomy 2025: procedure-specific postoperative pain management (PROSPECT) recommendations.

Anaesthesia 2026 Jan 12. doi: 10.1111/anae.70123. Online ahead of print.

2015

Summary recommendations: Thoracotomy 2015 (Archive).

2008

Joshi GP, Bonnet F, Shah R, Wilkinson RC, Camu F, Fischer B, Neugebauer EAM, Rawal N, Schug SA, Simanski C, Kehlet H.

A systematic review of randomized trials evaluating regional techniques for post-thoracotomy analgesia.

Anesth Analg 2008;107:1026–1040. DOI 1213/01.ane.0000333274.63501.ff