Fiorelli, Silvia Leopizzi, Giulio Menna, Cecilia Teodonio, Leonardo Ibrahim, Mohsen Rendina, Erino Angelo Ricci, Alberto De Blasi, Roberto Alberto Rocco, Monica Massullo, Domenico
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Several nerve block procedures are available for post-thoracotomy pain management. In this randomized trial, the authors aimed to determine whether the analgesic effect of preoperative ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block (ESPB) might be superior to that of intraoperative intercostal nerve block (ICNB) in pain control in patients undergoing...
Park, Jin-Woo Kim, Jeong Hoon Woo, Kyong-Je
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Medicina
Background and Objectives: Patients undergoing mastectomy and implant-based breast reconstruction have significant acute postsurgical pain. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of intercostal nerve blocks (ICNBs) for reducing pain after direct-to-implant (DTI) breast reconstruction. Materials and Methods: Between January 2019 and M...
Hung, Ming-Hui Chen, Jin-Shing Cheng, Ya-Jung
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Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology
Purpose of review The current review focuses on precise anesthesia for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) with the goal of enhanced recovery. Recent findings VATS has become an established and widely used minimally invasive approach with broad implementation on a variety of thoracic operations. In the current environment of enhanced recove...
Lee, Hyo Jeong Park, Hong Souk Moon, Hyun Im Yoon, Seo Yeon
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Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
To compare the efficacy of a conventional fluoroscopy-guided epidural nerve block and an ultrasound (US)-guided intercostal nerve block in patients with thoracic herpes zoster (HZ). This work was a comparative study of 38 patients with thoracic HZ pain and a chest wall herpetic eruption, aged 18 years or older, with pain intensity of 5 or greater o...
Zhu, Mengqi Gu, Yuechao Sun, Xia Liu, Xi Chen, Wankun Miao, Changhong
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Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain
To explore the feasibility, effectiveness, and safety of ultrasound-guided intercostal nerve block (ICNB) for immediate relief of moderate and severe pain following esophagectomy in a postanesthesia care unit (PACU). Eighty-one patients who complained of moderate to severe pain on arrival to the PACU after an Ivor Lewis esophagectomy were randomly ...
Yang, Jen-Ting Hung, Ming-Hui Chen, Jin-Shing Cheng, Ya-Jung
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Journal of thoracic disease
In the recent decade, nonintubated-intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has been extensively performed and evaluated. The indicated surgical procedures and suitable patient groups are steadily increasing. Perioperative anesthetic management presents itself as a fresh issue for the iatrogenic open pneumothorax, which is intended for...
Retrouvey, Michele Chiodo, Tony Quidley-Nevares, Anton Strand, Jonathan Goodmurphy, Craig
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Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
ObjectiveTo validate the use of ultrasound technology for the positioning and leveling of intercostal needle placement. DesignDouble-blinded experimental study. SettingAn anatomy laboratory. ParticipantsTwo board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, 2 first-year medical students, 1 anatomist, and 8 cadavers. InterventionsFour ...
