Improving Thoracic Trauma Care: Locoregional Analgesia in the Intensive Care Unit
Guilherme Sousa, André Barbosa Ribeiro, Elena Segura-Grau, Carla Santos · 2024
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Guilherme Sousa and co-authors review whether numbing the chest wall locally, rather than flooding the body with opioids, improves intensive care for thoracic trauma. Published in 2024, the retrospective study covers forty-three regional analgesia procedures in thirty-three ICU patients, mostly older men. Techniques ranged from epidural catheters to two plane blocks beside the spine and chest muscles.
Half the patients who received a block before a ventilator was started never needed one, a rate firmly above the comparison. No severe catheter complications appeared over a median week of use. Patients blocked early also left intensive care sooner in the portion shown. The authors argue targeted pain control changes the whole trajectory of chest injury care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Guilherme Sousa, André Barbosa Ribeiro, Elena Segura-Grau, Carla Santos |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |