Effectiveness of Surgeon-Performed Paravertebral Block Analgesia for Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In minimally invasive thoracic surgery, paravertebral block (PVB) using ultrasound (US)-guided technique is an efficient postoperative analgesia. However, it is an operator-dependent process depending on experience and local resources. Because pain-control failure is highly detrimental, surgeons may consider other locoregional analgesic options.

Objective

To demonstrate the noninferiority of PVB performed by surgeons under video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), hereafter referred to as PVB-VATS, as the experimental group compared with PVB performed by anesthesiologists using US-guided technique (PVB-US) as the control group.

Design, setting, and participants

In this single-center, noninferiority, patient-blinded, randomized clinical trial conducted fr

SUBMITTER: Chenesseau J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10600725 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature