Title
Successful control of chronic cancer pain from lung cancer with erector spinae plane (ESP) block in a pulmonology department. Case report
Other title
Control Exitoso del dolor oncológico crónico por cáncer de pulmón con el bloqueo del plano del erector espinal (BPEE) en un servicio de neumología. Reporte de caso
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Sociedad de Anestesiologia de Chile
Abstract
Cancer pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. 90% of patients with terminal cancer present pain. An alternative for the management of pain located in the thorax is erector spinae plane (ESP) block guided by real-time ultrasound. However, its use in the management of oncological chest pain is not very common, with few reports in this regard, with most of these reports always performed by anesthesiologists. We describe our first experience performing a real-time guided ESP block using ultrasound performed by a trained pulmonologist in a 64 years-old male with lung adenocarcinoma stage IVa with sternum metastases and multiple left costal arches associated with left pleural effusion due to pleural metastases. We found ESP block to be safe for the patient as well as effective in reducing pain measured by Visual Analogic Score and was able to reduce the use of systemic analgesics.
Start page
98
End page
101
Volume
51
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Medicina general, Medicina interna
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85126537054
Source
Revista Chilena de Anestesia
ISSN of the container
07164076
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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