Ultrasound-Guided Erector Spinae Plan Block for Colorectal Surgery

Summary

Colorectal cancer is a common and lethal disease. It still remains the third most common cause of cancer death in women and the second leading cause of death in men. Pain control is an important direction of postoperative management in malignancy surgery. Inadequate pain control increases cardiac and respiratory complications in these critical patients. Erector spinae plane (ESP) block is a recently described regional anesthesia technique that blocks the dorsal and ventral rami of the spinal nerves and the sympathetic nerve fibers. While the ESP block has been shown to provide effective postoperative analgesia after thoracic, and abdominal surgeries. Our aim in this study was to investigate bilateral thoracic ESP block for providing successful postoperative pain management following colorectal surgery.

Timeline

Start

2020-06-18

Primary completion

2020-07-30

Completion

2020-08-15

Publications

• Background Hain E, Maggiori L, Prost A la Denise J, Panis Y. Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block in laparoscopic colorectal surgery improves postoperative pain management: a meta-analysis. Colorectal Dis. 2018 Apr;20(4):279-287. doi: 10.1111/codi.14037.
• Background Tulgar S, Ahiskalioglu A, De Cassai A, Gurkan Y. Efficacy of bilateral erector spinae plane block in the management of pain: current insights. J Pain Res. 2019 Aug 27;12:2597-2613. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S182128. eCollection 2019.

Drugs

Indications