Open AccessSerratus Anterior Plane Block for Flail Chest Injury
Author(s) -
Eid Mohamed,
Nassr Mohammed,
Aziz Ahmed
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anaesthesia cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2396-8397
DOI - 10.21466/ac.sapbffc.2014
Subject(s) - flail chest , medicine , blunt , chest pain , surgery , block (permutation group theory) , reduction (mathematics) , anesthesia , mathematics , geometry
Summary We present the management of severe pain in a patient with a flail chest following blunt trauma. The patient presented with right sided chest pain, shortness of breath and inability to cough. A right‐sided serratus anterior plane block was performed which resulted in a marked reduction in the patient's pain scores and improvement in symptoms.
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