Aǧrı : Ağrı (Algoloji) Derneği'nin Yayın organıdır = The journal of the Turkish Society of Algology
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Analgesic effect of the bi-level injection erector spinae plane block after breast surgery: A randomized controlled trial.
Due to the complex breast innervation, postoperative analgesia after breast surgery is a challenge for the anesthesiologists. The erector spinae plane block (ESPB) is a newly defined promising technique for this purpose. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of the ultrasound-guided ESPB in breast surgery, monitoring its effect on the postoperative opioid consumption. ⋯ Our study has shown that a significant opioid-sparing analgesic effect in patients undergoing breast surgery could be achieved with a US-guided bi-level ESP block.