Report of Open Cholecystectomy in Two Obese Patients with Severe Lung Disease under Awake Thoracic Epidural Anaesthesia

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Jan 2015Publisher:Longdom GroupJournal:Journal of Pain Management & Medicine, volume 1 (eissn: 2684-1320,

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Authors: M, Dalamagka; CH, Kontovitsis;

doi: 10.35248/2684-1320.15.1.104

Report of Open Cholecystectomy in Two Obese Patients with Severe Lung Disease under Awake Thoracic Epidural Anaesthesia

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We report 2 cases of cholecystitis and cholelithiasis in patients with obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, American Society of Anaesthesiologists classification IV, that they were treated with open cholecystectomy. In both cases, successful open cholecystectomy was performed, under thoracic epidural anaesthesia, and the patients recovered uneventfully.

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