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Last Update: 02/27/2025 04:16 AM
Current Deck: ACG Part 2::Thoracic SSU
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Commit #291073
SS_TS 1.14 Outline the anaesthetic management of the following procedures :
Drainage of empyema and decortication of lung
Drainage of empyema and decortication of lung
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Commit #291073Drainage of empyema, decortication
- VATS +/- open thoracotomy (depending on whether patient can tolerate OLV)
- May be systemically unwell preop, febrile. Check for bronchopleural fistulae
- Decortication can bleed ++, G+H essential
- Lines: art line + likely CVL
- Multimodal analgesia; SA or ESP, intercostal nerve blocks, unable to do paravertebral or extrapleural catheters due to loss of pleura
- +/- SIRS post operatively