Open AccessEffect of erector spinae plane block for rib fractures on postoperative analgesia for elbow surgery: A case report
Author(s) -
Prajjwal Raj Bhattarai,
Achyut Sharma,
Rinku Sharma,
Anshu Sharma
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
birat journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2542-2804
pISSN - 2542-2758
DOI - 10.3126/bjhs.v5i3.33716
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , elbow , block (permutation group theory) , polytrauma , nerve block , erector spinae muscles , anesthesia , lumbar , geometry , mathematics
The erector spinae plane block is an emerging technique for analgesia. It has shown to provide reliable analgesia in abdominal and thoracic surgery. Erector spinae plane block may be efficacious for analgesia of pain in the upper limb. The advantage of this modality would be in a patient with polytrauma with rib fractures and upper limb fracture/injury as it assists in the physiotherapy of the chest and upper limb.