Phrenic Nerve Infiltration: Pulmonary Expansion and Pain Control

patients received the intra-operative infiltration of phrenic nerve by the surgeon who injected 10 ml of Ropivacaine 0.75% (the same procedure routinely adopted in our clinical practice for local analgesia at the level of the intercostal space) in the peri-neurotic pericardial fat, near the diaphragm. Infiltration is made with a deflated lung, after pulmonary resection and chest tube insertion.