Comparison of Ultrasound Guided Erector Spinae Plane Block and Ultrasound Guided Pericapsular Nerve Group Block for Pediatric Hip Surgery

Comparison of Ultrasound Guided Erector Spinae Plane Block and Ultrasound Guided Pericapsular Nerve Group Block for Pediatric Hip Surgery

Surgical repair of the hip can be extremely painful and is associated with considerable postoperative pain in children despite the use of systemic opioids. These patients may benefit from neuraxial analgesia in adjunction with general anesthesia. The reported advantages of this technique include decreased opiate exposure, decreased time in the post-anesthesia recovery room, decreased hospital stay, reduce the post-operative morbidity, provide early mobilization. Regional anesthetic techniques seem to be a better choice for improving acute pain management in these patients, with fewer adverse effects.

Surgical repair of the hip can be extremely painful and is associated with considerable postoperative pain in children despite the use of systemic opioids. These patients may benefit from neuraxial analgesia in adjunction with general anesthesia. The reported advantages of this technique include decreased opiate exposure, decreased time in the post-anesthesia recovery room, decreased hospital stay, reduce the post-operative morbidity, provide early mobilization.

Regional anesthetic techniques seem to be a better choice for improving acute pain management in these patients, with fewer adverse effects. The erector spinae block is a recently described ultrasound-guided technique in which local anesthetics is injected into a fascial plane between the tips of the thoracic transverse processes and the overlying erector spinae muscle (longissimus thoracis).

Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block has been recently recommended by Girón-Arango et al. for use as postoperative analgesia in hip surgeries. It is a new regional anesthesia technique in the region between the anterior inferior iliac spine (AIIS) and ilio-pubic eminence (IPE).

The anterior capsule is the most richly innervated section of the joint suggesting these nerves should be the main targets for hip analgesia.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children of both genders
• American Society of Anaestheologists (ASA) physical activity I, II
• aged more than one year
• admitted for elective pediatric hip surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children with severe systemic disease with American Society of Anaestheologists (ASA) III or IV,
• children with previous neurological or spinal disorders,
• coagulation disorder,
• infection at the block injection site,
• history of allergy to local anesthetics
• bilateral hip surgery.