Four-arm robotic lung resection versus muscle-sparing mini-thoracotomy: retrospective experience.

Background: Robotic surgery was introduced in the early 2000s but its use remains limited, particularly in thoracic surgery. Here we compare the first consecutive 185 four-arm robotic procedures carried out in our institution muscle-sparing video-assisted mini-thoracotomy (MSMT), our previous minimally invasive approach for anatomical lung resection.

Methods: One hundred and eighty-five consecutive patients undergoing surgery using the four-arm robotic technique between February 2014 and December 2016 were compared to a control historical series of 136 consecutive patients undergoing surgery by MSMT in the same institution.

A comparison of a single-stimulation lateral infraclavicular plexus block with a triple-stimulation axillary block.

Background And Objectives: A single-stimulation infraclavicular brachial plexus block (ICB) is safe and easy to perform, although underused. This technique was compared with a triple-stimulation axillary block (AxB).

Methods: One hundred patients scheduled for hand and forearm surgery were randomly allocated to 2 groups.

Hypnosis increases heat detection and heat pain thresholds in healthy volunteers.

Background And Objectives: Hypnosis has been reported to induce analgesia and to facilitate anesthesia. To date, hypnotic-induced analgesia has had little explanation and it has even been questioned. The current study was thus designed to investigate the effect of hypnotic suggestion on thermal-detection thresholds, heat pain, and heat-pain tolerance thresholds.