Open AccessUltrasound-guided multilevel paravertebral block versus local anesthesia for medical thoracoscopy
Author(s) -
Maha A Abo-Zeid,
Mohammad M Elgamal,
Asem A. Hewidy,
Amro Moawad,
Alaa Eldin Adel Elmaddawy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
saudi journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1658-354X
pISSN - 0975-3125
DOI - 10.4103/sja.sja_292_17
Subject(s) - medicine , thoracoscopy , local anesthetic , anesthesia , visual analogue scale , surgery , spirometry , infiltration (hvac) , local anesthesia , physics , asthma , thermodynamics
Local anesthetic infiltration for medical thoracoscopy has an analgesic properties for short duration. Single injection thoracic paravertebral block (PVB) provides limited analgesia.