The applicability of different thoracic epidural analgesia for patients with flail chest
Who can participate
Age range18 Years – 60 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Older than 18 years.
* American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 1 or 2.
* mentally competent and able to give consent for enrollment in the study
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patient refusal.
* Psychiatric disorder
* Patient younger than 18 years old
* Allergy to local anesthetics, systemic opioids (fentanyl, morphine)
* Impaired kidney functions and patient with coagulopathy will be also excluded.
* Chronic pain syndromes and patients with chronic opioid use defined as use of regular daily doses of systemic narcotics for the past 6 months prior to the surgery.
* BMI of 40 or more