Comparison of regional analgesia techniques for pleurodesis pain in pediatric patients.

Published in: Paediatric anaesthesia (2020)

Thoracic epidural analgesia offers a reduction in opioid use in the first two post-op days after pleurodesis but did not produce a clinically significant reduction in pain scores in comparison with paravertebral block or no block.

Keyphrases

pain management
postoperative pain
chronic pain
ultrasound guided
spinal cord
neuropathic pain
spinal cord injury