General Information

The hospital that you work?

City (state) hospital

University hospital

Private hospital

Other (please specify)

Your age?

30 - 39

40 - 49

50 - 59

60 and older

Section 1

1. The insicion that you prefer for a planned lobectomy (except extended resections)?

Standard posterolateral thoracotomy

Anterolateral thoracotomy

Anterior thoracotomy

Muscle-sparing thoracotomy

Other (please specify)

2. The technique preferred for the opening of thorax?

By the dissection of intercostal muscle

Subperiostally (by the dissection of intercostal muscle from the rib using electrocotary or rougin)

Harvesting of a intercostal muscle flep

By the performance of second and third choices

3. The technique preferred for the closure of thorax?

Pericostal sutures (contuining or separated sutures passing round the upper and lower ribs of the intercostal space that you entered to thorax)

Sutures passing through the intercostal bundle dissected supperiostally and the lower intercostal bundle

Intracostal sutures (sutures passing from the holes drilled on the upper on lower ribs)

By the performance of second and third choices

4. Number of chest tubes that you placed after lobectomy?

Two chest tubes for all types of lobectomy

One chest tube for all types of lobectomy

Two chest tubes for upper lobectomy, one for middle or lower lobectomies

Section 2

1. The preferred anesthetic agent if you perform per-or post-thoracotomy block?

I don’t perform

Bupivacaine

Lidocaine

Prilocaine

Levobupivacaine

2. The preferred analgesic agent if you perform postoperative systemic parenteral analgesia?

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent

Opioid derives

3. The agent preferred if you perform postoperative systemic parenteral analgesia with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents?

I don’t

Diclofenac sodium/potasium

Naproxen

Asetaminofen

Ibuprofen

Ketoprofen

Tenoxicam