A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Transversus Thoracic Muscle Plane Block, Erector Spinae Plane Block and Paravertebral Block for Analgesia in Patients Undergoing Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery
A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Transversus Thoracic Muscle Plane Block, Erector Spinae Plane Block and Paravertebral Block for Analgesia in Patients Undergoing Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery
The aim of this study is to compare the transversus thoracic muscle plane block (TTPB), erector spinae plane block (ESPB), and thoracic paravertebral block (TPVB) for postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).
Traditionally, resection is done via a thoracotomy. Still, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) provides significant advantages over open thoracotomy procedures, including reduced surgical pain, improved postoperative pulmonary function, reduced mortality, shortened hospital stay. It has emerged as a minimally invasive alternative.
Thoracic paravertebral block (TPVB) is a regional anesthetic technique in which local anesthetic (LA) is administered inside the thoracic paravertebral space (TPVS), which contains the intercostal spinal nerves, spinal dorsal rami, rami communicants, sympathetic chain, intercostal vessels, and fatty tissue.
The erector spinae plane block (ESPB) is an interfascial regional anesthesia block for thoracic analgesia which can be performed by superficial or deep needle approach.
Transversus thoracic muscle plane block (TTPB) is a newly developed technique in which LA is injected into the fascial plane between the transversus thoracic muscle and the internal intercostal muscles for blocking the anterior cutaneous branches of intercostal nerves from thoracic (Th) 2 to Th 6.
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