Ultrasound-Guided Erector Spinae Plan Block for Colorectal Surgery
Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2020-08-15
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
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.