Index Procedures
Procedure where a wedge-shaped section of tissue is removed.
What is Wedge Resection?
Surgical incision into the chest wall.
What is Thoracotomy?
Damage to a sensory nerve.
What is Neuropathic Pain?
Source of Inflammatory Pain.
What is tissue damage?
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 Pleuradesis?
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?
Open method of Nuss procedure.
Surgical approach for lung transplant.
What is clamshell?
Anxiety/emotional response to pain.
What is Bio-Psycho-Social Pain?
Somatic Pain from Surgical Stabilization of Rib Fractures is due to...
What is damage to skin, soft tissue, muscle and bone (ribs)?
5th intercostal space is between...
What is T5 and T6?
Pneumonectomy procedure that also removes part of or all the pericardium, diaphragm, and parietal pleura.
What is Extrapleural Pnuemonectomy?
Making an incision through an intercostal space (space between the ribs) on the side of the chest to access the thoracic cavity.
Pain associated with tissue injury.
What is Nociceptive Pain?
Neuropathic Pain as a result from a Pneumonectomy procedure is a result of what?
What is damage to Intercostal Nerves and/or Pulmonary Plexus?
Where the visceral and parietal pleurae connect to each other
What is the Hilum?
Name one of the three common port placements for the VATS approach of the Nuss procedure.
1. ICS 7, mid-axillary line for the thoracoscope
2. ICS 4, anterior axillary line
3. Just anterior to the tip of the scapula
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?
Central Nervous System consists of
What is the Brain and Spinal Cord?