Pooja Joshi, Deepak Borde, Pramod Apsingekar, Swati Pande, Mangesh Tandale, Anand Deodhar, Sachin Jangle
Sternal wound complications following sternotomy need a multidisciplinary approach in high-risk postoperative cardiac surgical patients. Poorly controlled pain during surgical management of such wounds increases cardiovascular stress and respiratory complications. Multimodal analgesia including intravenous opioids, non-opioid analgesics, and regional anesthesia techniques, like central neuraxial blocks and fascial plane blocks, have been described. Pecto-intercostal fascial plane block (PIFB), a novel technique, has been effectively used in patients undergoing cardiac surgery...
April 1, 2024: Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia