Anesthesiological Support of Thoracoscopic Operations: Vagosympathetic Blockade and High Epidural Anesthesia

Abstract

Video-assisting thoracoscopic interventions have significant advantages over open thoracotomy procedures, including reduction of surgical pain, improvement of postoperative pulmonary function, reduction of mortality, reduction of hospital stay, but the optimal choice of anesthesia for these interventions remains relevant and not fully resolved issues of thoracic surgery.