Key result
Pecto-intercostal fascial block successfully treated severe acute sternal pain in a 77-year-old patient after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Why the study?
Does a pecto-intercostal fascial block improve acute poststernotomy pain in patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery?
Case Report (n=1)
Does a pecto-intercostal fascial block improve acute poststernotomy pain in patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery?
The pecto-intercostal fascial block may represent an effective novel regional anesthetic component of a multimodal analgesic strategy for cardiac surgery patients with significant poststernotomy pain.
May offer an alternative for post-CABG sternal pain; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials before adoption.
Sternotomy pain is a common complication after cardiac surgery. We present a 77-year-old patient with severe acute sternal pain after coronary artery bypass graft surgery who was successfully treated with a novel peripheral regional anesthetic technique, the pecto-intercostal fascial block. This interfascial plane block may represent an effective regional anesthetic component of a multimodal analgesic strategy for cardiac surgery patients who suffer from significant pain after a median sternotomy and are typically anticoagulated.
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Liu et al. (2017) conducted a case report in Acute poststernotomy pain (n=1). Pecto-intercostal fascial block was evaluated on Pain relief. Pecto-intercostal fascial block successfully treated severe acute sternal pain in a 77-year-old patient after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
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