%0 Journal Article %T Invited author response to editorials on liposomal bupivacaine in minimally-invasive thoracic surgery: the judge is in favor but the jury is still out %A Ely, Sora %A Dominguez, Dana A. %A Velotta, Jeffrey B. %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2019 %B 2019 %9 %! Invited author response to editorials on liposomal bupivacaine in minimally-invasive thoracic surgery: the judge is in favor but the jury is still out %K %X We appreciate the insightful editorials by Martin and Mehran (1) and Caso and Marshall (2) regarding our recent manuscript (3), which described a decreased length of stay (LOS) in patients receiving intercostal nerve blocks with liposomal bupivacaine (LB) (Exparel ® ) compared to standard bupivacaine after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) or minimally-invasive esophagectomy (MIE). Both articles raise a number of interesting points, and we would like to clarify some details of our study and expand on their discussion. %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/28874 %V 11 %N 5 %P E71-E73 %@ 2077-6624