Open AccessPectoral nerve block as the sole anesthetic technique for a modified radical mastectomy in a comorbid patient
Author(s) -
Sehend Debbağ,
Fatma Sarıcaoğlu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
saudi medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1658-3175
pISSN - 0379-5284
DOI - 10.15537/smj.2019.12.24644
Subject(s) - medicine , nerve block , anesthetic , anesthesia , dexmedetomidine , breast surgery , surgery , mastectomy , modified radical mastectomy , sedation , perioperative , pectoral muscle , breast cancer , cancer
Breast surgery operations are generally performed by general anesthesia. In order to decrease postoperative pain, regional anesthesia is usually combined with general anesthesia. Pectoral nerve blocks is a novel technique to provide perioperative and postoperative pain control for patients underwent breast surgery. We performed pectoral nerve block I and pectoral nerve block II as a sole anesthetic technique with sedation by dexmedetomidine for modified radical mastectomy, for a 75-year-old female patient with multiple diseases. Pectoral nerve blocks with sedation could be a good technique for breast surgery than general anesthesia in comorbid patients.