Transversus Thoracis Plane Block Versus Parasternal Intercostal Nerve Plane Block for Cardiac Surgery

Summary

Traditionally postoperative pain management after cardiac surgery has been based on opiate analgesics. However, opiates have some undesirable dose-related side-effects such as nausea, constipation, vomiting, dizziness, mental confusion and respiratory depression, which substantially influence patient recovery and may delay discharge after surgery. The American Society of Anesthesiologists has endorsed multi- modal analgesia, involving multiple analgesics with differing modes of action, to reduce the overreliance on opioid-based postsurgical analgesic regimens and the associated adverse effects. The safety of using the transversus thoracis muscle plane block (TTP) or the parasternal intercostal nerve block (PSI block) for cardiac surgeries allow to make the option of using opioids alone and the possibility of its complications not the rule in post-operative pain relief in cardiac surgeries. In the current study, improving the quality of the transversus thoracis muscle plane block (TTP) or the parasternal intercostal nerve block (PSI block) for cardiothoracic surgeries by enhancing post-operative pain relief becomes more and more required to cope up with the new surgical modalities.

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Start

2023-12-15

Primary completion

2024-04-15

Completion

2024-05-15

Publications

• Background Fleming IO, Garratt C, Guha R, Desai J, Chaubey S, Wang Y, Leonard S, Kunst G. Aggregation of Marginal Gains in Cardiac Surgery: Feasibility of a Perioperative Care Bundle for Enhanced Recovery in Cardiac Surgical Patients. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2016 Jun;30(3):665-70. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2016.01.017. Epub 2016 Jan 16.
• Background Grant MC, Isada T, Ruzankin P, Whitman G, Lawton JS, Dodd-O J, Barodka V; Johns Hopkins Enhanced Recovery Program for the Cardiac Surgery Working Group. Results from an enhanced recovery program for cardiac surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Apr;159(4):1393-1402.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.05.035. Epub 2019 Jun 7.
• Background Li M, Zhang J, Gan TJ, Qin G, Wang L, Zhu M, Zhang Z, Pan Y, Ye Z, Zhang F, Chen X, Lin G, Huang L, Luo W, Guo Q, Wang E. Enhanced recovery after surgery pathway for patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a randomized clinical trial. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2018 Sep 1;54(3):491-497. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezy100.
• Background Ueshima H, Takeda Y, Ishikawa S, Otake H. RETRACTED: Ultrasound-guided transversus thoracic muscle plane block: a cadaveric study of the spread of injectate. J Clin Anesth. 2015 Dec;27(8):696. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2015.05.013. Epub 2015 Jul 3. No abstract available.
• Background Barr AM, Tutungi E, Almeida AA. Parasternal intercostal block with ropivacaine for pain management after cardiac surgery: a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2007 Aug;21(4):547-53. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2006.09.003. Epub 2006 Dec 22.

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