• Anesthesiology · Jul 2020

    Neural Selective Cryoneurolysis with Ice Slurry Injection in a Rat Model.

    • Lilit Garibyan, Sara Moradi Tuchayi, Ying Wang, Alla Khodorova, Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov, Martin Purschke, Sam Osseiran, Conor L Evans, Jianren Mao, Gary Strichartz, and R Rox Anderson.
    • From the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (L.G., S.M.T., Y.W., A.K., M.P., S.O., C.L.E., R.R.A.) Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (A.S.-R.) Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.M.) Brigham and Women's Hospital and Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (G.S.).
    • Anesthesiology. 2020 Jul 1; 133 (1): 185-194.

    BackgroundPostoperative pain caused by trauma to nerves and tissue around the surgical site is a major problem. Perioperative steps to reduce postoperative pain include local anesthetics and opioids, the latter of which are addictive and have contributed to the opioid epidemic. Cryoneurolysis is a nonopioid and long-lasting treatment for reducing postoperative pain. However, current methods of cryoneurolysis are invasive, technically demanding, and are not tissue-selective. This project aims to determine whether ice slurry can be used as a novel, injectable, drug-free, and tissue-selective method of cryoneurolysis and resulting analgesia.MethodsThe authors developed an injectable and selective method of cryoneurolysis using biocompatible ice slurry, using rat sciatic nerve to investigate the effect of slurry injection on the structure and function of the nerve. Sixty-two naïve, male Sprague-Dawley rats were used in this study. Advanced Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering microscopy, light, and fluorescent microscopy imaging were used at baseline and at various time points after treatment for evaluation and quantification of myelin sheath and axon structural integrity. Validated motor and sensory testing were used for evaluating the sciatic nerve function in response to ice slurry treatment.ResultsIce slurry injection can selectively target the rat sciatic nerve. Being injectable, it can infiltrate around the nerve. The authors demonstrate that a single injection is safe and selective for reversibly disrupting the myelin sheaths and axon density, with complete structural recovery by day 112. This leads to decreased nocifensive function for up to 60 days, with complete recovery by day 112. There was up to median [interquartile range]: 68% [60 to 94%] reduction in mechanical pain response after treatment.ConclusionsIce slurry injection selectively targets the rat sciatic nerve, causing no damage to surrounding tissue. Injection of ice slurry around the rat sciatic nerve induced decreased nociceptive response from the baseline through neural selective cryoneurolysis.

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