Pectoral nerve block as the sole anesthetic technique for a modified radical mastectomy in a comorbid patient

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Debbağ S., Sarıcaoğlu F.

SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.40, sa.12, ss.1285-1289, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 40 Sayı: 12
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.15537/smj.2019.12.24644
  • Dergi Adı: SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1285-1289
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Breast surgery operations are generally performed by general anesthesia. In order to decrease postoperative pain, regional anesthesia is usually combined with general anesthesia. Pectoral nerve blocks is a novel technique to provide perioperative and postoperative pain control for patients underwent breast surgery. We performed pectoral nerve block I and pectoral nerve block II as a sole anesthetic technique with sedation by dexmedetomidine for modified radical mastectomy, for a 75-year-old female patient with multiple diseases. Pectoral nerve blocks with sedation could be a good technique for breast surgery than general anesthesia in comorbid patients.