Successful management of an elderly patient with multiple trauma.
An elderly female patient with multiple trauma and flail chest received thoracic and lumbar epidural analgesia and anesthesia, respectively, in the surgical ICU and the operating room. This technique provided segmental analgesia with minimal amounts of narcotics. This allowed for the very important early ambulation and absence of respiratory complications, the main cause of increased morbidity in this age group.
D000368:Aged; D000698:Analgesia; D000767:Anesthesia, Epidural; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy