• A&A practice · Jun 2018

    Pecto-intercostal Fascial Block for Acute Poststernotomy Pain: A Case Report.

    • Victor Liu, Edward R Mariano, and Christopher Prabhakar.
    • From the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
    • A A Pract. 2018 Jun 15; 10 (12): 319-322.

    AbstractSternotomy pain is a common complication after cardiac surgery. We present a 77-year-old patient with severe acute sternal pain after coronary artery bypass graft surgery who was successfully treated with a novel peripheral regional anesthetic technique, the pecto-intercostal fascial block. This interfascial plane block may represent an effective regional anesthetic component of a multimodal analgesic strategy for cardiac surgery patients who suffer from significant pain after a median sternotomy and are typically anticoagulated.

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