Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Aug 2018
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyPectoral I Block Does Not Improve Postoperative Analgesia After Breast Cancer Surgery: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Dual-Centered Controlled Trial.
General anesthesia for breast surgery may be supplemented by using a regional anesthetic technique. We evaluated the efficacy of the first pectoral nerve block (Pecs I) in treating postoperative pain after breast cancer surgery. ⋯ This study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT01670448.