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 |