. 2023; 29(1): 23-26 | DOI: 10.14744/GKDAD.2023.21548 | ||||
Ultrasound-Guided Rhomboid Intercostal Block for Analgesia After Cardiac Surgery: A New Indication for Novel Fascial Plane BlockBurhan Dost1, Cengiz Kaya1, Semih Murat Yücel2, Serkan Tulgar3, Alessandro De Cassai4, Deniz Karakaya11Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Ondokuz Mayis University Faculty of Medicine, Samsun, Türkiye2Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ondokuz Mayis University Faculty of Medicine, Samsun, Türkiye 3Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Samsun University Faculty of Medicine, Samsun Training and Research Hospital, Samsun, Türkiye 4UOC Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy Objectives: Acute postoperative pain is a common complication after cardiac surgery. When not properly regulated, it may have a negative impact on clinical results. One of the novel fascial plane blocks that aims to blockade the lateral cutaneous branches of the thoracic intercostal nerves is the rhomboid intercostal block. In the literature, there is no research of rhomboid intercostal block in cardiac surgery, and a limited number of reports employing this block to analgesia for thoracotomy, scapulothoracic arthrodesis, and lung transplantation. In our research, we aimed to display a case series of bilateral rhomboid intercostal blocks employed as an element of multimodal analgesia in five consecutive patients who underwent cardiac surgery through a median sternotomy. Burhan Dost, Cengiz Kaya, Semih Murat Yücel, Serkan Tulgar, Alessandro De Cassai, Deniz Karakaya. Ultrasound-Guided Rhomboid Intercostal Block for Analgesia After Cardiac Surgery: A New Indication for Novel Fascial Plane Block. . 2023; 29(1): 23-26 Sorumlu Yazar: Burhan Dost, Türkiye |
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