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Pectus Excavatum: The Kansas City Experience. George W. Holcomb, III, M.D., M.B.A . Surgeon-in-Chief Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City, MO. Pectus Excavatum Jan 1998 – August 2011. 520 Nuss Operations Surgeons: Ashcraft, Sharp, Ostlie, Snyder, St. Peter, Holcomb.
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Pectus Excavatum:The Kansas City Experience George W. Holcomb, III, M.D., M.B.A. Surgeon-in-Chief Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City, MO
Pectus ExcavatumJan 1998 – August 2011 • 520 Nuss Operations • Surgeons: Ashcraft, Sharp, Ostlie, Snyder, St. Peter, Holcomb
The Kansas City Experience • Major variation in technique is the use of a sub-xiphoid incision for insertion of a finger to guide the bar passer and bar across the mediastinum.
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The Kansas City Experience • 520 Patients • No cardiac injuries using the subxiphoid incision • I.V. narcotics (PCA) preferred over epidural catheter for postoperative pain control
The Kansas City ExperienceDecember ‘99 – March ‘09 • 307 Pts • Mean age 14 yrs – 78% males • Mean O.R. time – 50 ±16 minutes • Two bars – 16 (5%) • Mean length hospitalization 4.1 ± 1.1 days • Mean time bar removal 33 ± 7 months J PediatrSurg 45:1361-1364, 2010
The Kansas City Experience307 Patients J PediatrSurg 45:1361-1364, 2010
The Kansas City ExperienceRetrospective Study On Pain ManagementJan 2000 – Feb 2006 • 203 Pts • 188 epidural • 15 I.V. narcotics (PCA) • Epidural removed w/in 24 hours in 65 pts (34.5%) J PediatrSurg 43:79-82, 2008
The Kansas City Experience Retrospective Study On Pain Management J PediatrSurg 43:79-82, 2008
The Kansas City Experience Prospective Randomized Trial On Pain ManagementSept 2006 – May 2010 • Epidural catheter vs I.V. narcotics (PCA) • Power 0.80; α 0.05 • 110 Pts (55 each arm) • Epidural removed w/in 24 hrs – 12 pts (22%) • PCA required after epidural removal in 7 patients (16%) APSA 2011 Accepted, J PediatrSurg
The Kansas City Experience Operation Times – Epidural vs PCA
The Kansas City ExperienceHospital Charges – Epidural vs PCA
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