Continuous erector spinae plane block as part of opioid-sparing postoperative analgesia after video-assisted thoracic surgeries: Series of 4 cases

摘要

Acute postoperative painmanagement for patients undergoing thoracicsurgery hasalways been on alever between good pain coverageand major opioid sideeffects.As nonopioid drugs do notsufficeto cover the pain after thoracicsurgery and theepiduralcatheter seems to belosing its supremacy dueto its severe possiblecomplications,[1] theerector spinae(ES) plane block optsasa promising newmethod inmultimodalanalgesia. Acontinuous ES plane block administered forpostoperativeanalgesiafollowing video-assisted thoracicsurgery (VATS) withminimalthoracotomy surgicalapproach has not been described thus far.