Index Procedures
Procedure where a wedge-shaped section of tissue is removed from the lung.
What is Wedge Resection?
Surgical incision into the chest wall.
What is Thoracotomy?
Pain due to damage to the Nervous System.
What is Neuropathic Pain?
Pain that has no known organic origin.
What is Functional Pain?
Thoracic Cage consists of...
What is 12 pairs of ribs with their Costal Cartilages and the Sternum?
Procedure to prevent fluid or air from building up in the pleural cavity.
What is Pleurodesis?
Primary incision technique used in cardiac surgery.
What is Median Sternotomy?
Pain secondary to inflammation.
What is Inflammatory Pain?
Source of Visceral Pain from a Pleurodesis procedure.
What is damage to lung and pleura?
Three regions of the sternum.
What is Manubrium, Body, and Xyphoid Process?
Minimally-invasive procedure for coronary artery bypass.
What is MIDCAB?
Surgical approach for lung transplant.
What is clamshell?
Anxiety/emotional response to pain.
What is Bio-Psycho-Social Factor?
Somatic Pain comes from damage to...
What is skin, soft tissue, muscle and bone?
5th intercostal space is between...
What is T5 and T6?
Procedure to remove pleural rind from lung.
What is Decortication?
An incision on the side of the chest, through an intercostal space to gain access to the thoracic cavity.
What is intercostal lateral thoracotomy?
Pain associated with internal organs.
What is Nociceptive Visceral Pain?
Neuropathic Pain comes from mechanical injury to...
What is Intercostal Nerves?
Where the visceral and parietal pleurae connect to each other.
What is the Hilum?
Nuss procedure treats this common congenital deformation.
What is Pectus Excavatum?
Incision that provides access to both the thoracic and abdominal cavities.
What is Thoracoabdominal incision?
Pain cryoNB addresses.
What is Nociceptive Somatic Pain?
cryoNB ablation site causes what type of pain...
What is Inflammatory Pain?
cryoNB is applied how far from the spine?
What is 4cm?