"Thoracic paravertebral nerve block is a technique that many consider to be high risk," comments Dr. Steven L. Shafer of Stanford University, Editor-in-Chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Operating Room Continuous thoracic paravertebral nerve block, epidural anesthesia similarly effective for the management of postthoracotomy pain. According to a retrospective study by researchers at ...

We wanted to discover whether blocking the nerves as they emerge from the spinal column (paravertebral block, (PVB)) was better or worse than using central neuraxial nerve block (thoracic epidural ...

We read with great interest the study by Zheng et al. 1 . It revealed that patients under ultrasound-guided thoracic paravertebral nerve block had a lower incidence of severe mediastinal flutter ...

We have previously employed CT-guided thoracic sympathetic chain anhydrous alcohol chemical damage block to treat palmar hyperhidrosis (6 – 8). However, this treatment has a limited duration, and ...

They searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane on April 1, 2024, for studies on “ED thoracic nerve blocks”, 2 reviewers (an emergency medicine ultrasound fellowship-trained attending physician and ...

Intercostal nerve block (ICNB) analgesia with local anesthesia led to reduced pain in the first 24 hours after thoracic surgery, with 24-hour pain scores that were noninferior to thoracic epidural ...