Erector Spinae Catheter for Open Heart Surgery

Summary

Fast track to Extubation after cardiothoracic surgery is becoming more common after a number of reports showing it is safe and effective. However, It has introduced new challenges to pain control. Intubated patients require larger doses of opioids and benzodiazepines for comfort. In patients who are awake and spontaneously breathing, pain and agitation cannot be treated with lower doses. Some centers still administer continuous infusions of opioid and benzodiazepines to extubated patients. These infusions may not be necessary and may even be harmful. The recent pilot study (In press in Journal of cardio thoracic vascular anesthesia ) in our Vinmec hospitals performing open heart surgeries of peri-operative regional analgesia by Continuous Bilateral Erector Spinae Plane Blocks in adult showed that the pain relief was efficient and the requirement for opioids was zero in post-operative period. It confirmed that the impact of regional anesthesia techniques on main procedure-specific postoperative outcomes is very important in opioids decreased use in the context of fast-track programs that are fully suggested after cardiac surgery. In April 2017 we introduced the technique of ESP block for open heart surgeries in Adults and in pediatric. At the beginning we performed single shot block and the patients still needed during around 30 to 40 hours small doses of opioids to release their pain according to the evaluation by Comfort-B,FLACC VAS Scales. Since we are performing continuous peri-operative regional analgesia by Bilateral ESP catheters the requirement for additional opioids to release the pain is zero based on our practice of 480 ESP catheters for open heart surgeries. We would like to compare the 2 analgesic techniques and analyze the post operative opioid consumption, the quality of recovery and the quality of life after the surgery.

Timeline

Start

2019-01-05

Primary completion

2023-08-14

Completion

2023-08-14

Outcome

Outcome not reported

Stopped: “covid and surgeon left”

Publications

• Background Alghamdi AA, Singh SK, Hamilton BC, Yadava M, Holtby H, Van Arsdell GS, Al-Radi OO. Early extubation after pediatric cardiac surgery: systematic review, meta-analysis, and evidence-based recommendations. J Card Surg. 2010 Sep;25(5):586-95. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01088.x.
• Background Garg R, Rao S, John C, Reddy C, Hegde R, Murthy K, Prakash PV. Extubation in the operating room after cardiac surgery in children: a prospective observational study with multidisciplinary coordinated approach. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2014 Jun;28(3):479-87. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2014.01.003. Epub 2014 Apr 18.
• Background Heinle JS, Diaz LK, Fox LS. Early extubation after cardiac operations in neonates and young infants. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1997 Sep;114(3):413-8. doi: 10.1016/S0022-5223(97)70187-9.
• Background Kin N, Weismann C, Srivastava S, Chakravarti S, Bodian C, Hossain S, Krol M, Hollinger I, Nguyen K, Mittnacht AJ. Factors affecting the decision to defer endotracheal extubation after surgery for congenital heart disease: a prospective observational study. Anesth Analg. 2011 Aug;113(2):329-35. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31821cd236. Epub 2011 Apr 13.
• Background Carli F, Kehlet H, Baldini G, Steel A, McRae K, Slinger P, Hemmerling T, Salinas F, Neal JM. Evidence basis for regional anesthesia in multidisciplinary fast-track surgical care pathways. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2011 Jan-Feb;36(1):63-72. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31820307f7.
• Background Macaire P, Ho N, Nguyen T, Nguyen B, Vu V, Quach C, Roques V, Capdevila X. Ultrasound-Guided Continuous Thoracic Erector Spinae Plane Block Within an Enhanced Recovery Program Is Associated with Decreased Opioid Consumption and Improved Patient Postoperative Rehabilitation After Open Cardiac Surgery-A Patient-Matched, Controlled Before-and-After Study. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2019 Jun;33(6):1659-1667. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2018.11.021. Epub 2018 Nov 19.
• Background Tsui BCH, Navaratnam M, Boltz G, Maeda K, Caruso TJ. Bilateral automatized intermittent bolus erector spinae plane analgesic blocks for sternotomy in a cardiac patient who underwent cardiopulmonary bypass: A new era of Cardiac Regional Anesthesia. J Clin Anesth. 2018 Aug;48:9-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2018.04.005. Epub 2018 May 26. No abstract available.
• Background Biswas A, Luginbuehl I, Szabo E, Caldeira-Kulbakas M, Crawford MW, Everett T. Use of Serratus Plane Block for Repair of Coarctation of Aorta: A Report of 3 Cases. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2018 Aug;43(6):641-643. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000801.

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Indications

No indication recorded.