Erector Spinae Plane Block for Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in the Ambulatory Surgical Setting

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

Documents

  • 5492527

    Final published version, 2.2 MB, PDF document

Postoperative pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy can be severe. Despite multimodal analgesia regimes, administration of high doses of opioids is often necessary. This can further lead to several adverse effects such as drowsiness and respiratory impairment as well as postoperative nausea and vomiting. This will hinder early mobilization and discharge of the patient from the day surgery setting and is suboptimal in an Early Recovery after Surgery setting. The ultrasound-guided Erector Spinae Plane (ESP) block is a novel truncal interfascial block technique providing analgesia of the thoracic or abdominal segmental innervation depending on the level of administration. Local anesthetic penetrates anteriorly presumably through the costotransverse foramina to the paravertebral space. We demonstrate the analgesic efficacy of the ESP block in a case series of three patients scheduled for ambulatory laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5492527
JournalCase Reports in Anesthesiology
Volume2018
Number of pages6
ISSN2090-6382
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Number of downloads are based on statistics from Google Scholar and www.ku.dk


No data available

ID: 222169884