Comparison of Dexmedetomidine and Ketamine in Serratus Anterior Plane Block for Postoperative Pain Control in Thoracotomy Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Mahbobeh RashidiKamran MahmoodiReza AkhondzadehReza BaghbanianFatemeh Jahangiri MehrNiloofar Safaei SemnaniPublished in: Anesthesiology and pain medicine (2024)
Dexmedetomidine and ketamine, which were used as supplements to ropivacaine for SAPB in patients undergoing elective thoracotomy, reduced the pain intensity after thoracotomy; nevertheless, the intensity of pain reduction was more and more effective in the group receiving ketamine.
Keyphrases
- postoperative pain
- pain management
- patients undergoing
- chronic pain
- aortic valve replacement
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- neuropathic pain
- high intensity
- cardiac surgery
- prognostic factors
- aortic stenosis
- aortic valve
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- left ventricular
- patient reported