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ReviewPulmonary therapy2026

A Review of Analgesic and Anaesthetic Approaches in Local Anaesthetic (Medical) Thoracoscopy.

Jasandra Sutanto, Duneesha DeFonseka, Bernard Duysinx, Valentina Pinelli, Elizabeth Turnbull, Avinash Aujayeb

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Review in Pulmonary therapy, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Jasandra SutantoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, Northumbria Way, Cramlington, NE23 6NZ, UK. sutantojasandra@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-9040-5170
Duneesha DeFonsekaAcademic Respiratory Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Herries Road, Sheffield, S5 7AU, UK.
Bernard DuysinxDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital CHU Sart-Tilman, 4000, Liège, Belgium.
Valentina PinelliUnit of Pneumology Nord, USL Toscana Nord Ovest, Massa, Italy.
Elizabeth TurnbullDepartment of Anaesthetics, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, Northumbria Way, Cramlington, NE23 6NZ, UK.
Avinash AujayebDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, Northumbria Way, Cramlington, NE23 6NZ, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pleural disease is a subspecialist area of respiratory medicine, requiring diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. The most invasive pleural procedure is local anaesthetic thoracoscopy (LAT) used in the context of unexplained exudative pleural effusions. LAT can be exquisitely painful because of instrumentation of the parietal pleura which carries all nociceptive nerve endings. The optimal anaesthetic and analgesic requirement for LAT is not known, and recommendations are based on expert opinions and small usually single-centre studies. We provide a narrative description of existing literature, show the potential application of regional nerve blocks for LAT and provide practice points.

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Anaesthesia for thoracoscopyErector spinae nerve blocksLocal anaesthetic thoracoscopyPleuroscopy

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PMID42461572
PMCPMC13569793

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