Epidural Analgesia Versus Systemic Opioids for Postoperative Pain Management After VATS: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Firm consensus on the best perioperative pain management after Video‐Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) is lacking. Recommendations often assess different loco‐regional techniques as part of a multimodal approach, but few discuss omitting regional analgesia altogether, eliminating any risk of procedural complications. A reasonable prerequisite for this approach would be that the alternative provides comparable pain relief. To compare the efficacy of systemic opioids and epidural analgesia for postoperative pain management, we conducted a systematic review and meta‐analysis of current studies.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

• Publication date

  2025-09-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/aas.70122PMID 40937914PMCID 12427149
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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