1. Local infusion of bupivacaine combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia provides better pain relief than intravenous patient-controlled analgesia alone in patients undergoing minimally invasive cardiac surgery 
Kuan-Ming Chiu, MD, Chia-Chan Wu, MD, Ming-Jiuh Wang, MD, PhD, Cheng-Wei Lu, MD, Jiann-Shing Shieh, PhD, Tzu-Yu Lin, MD, Shu-Hsun Chu, MD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 135, Issue 6, Pages (June 2008)
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2. Figure 1
Placement of the epidural catheter in the wound and the fixed catheter circled with 5–0 Prolene polypropylene (Ethicon, Inc, Somerville, NJ).
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