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Post operative pain management in shoulder surgery: Suprascapular and axillary nerve block by arthroscope assisted catheter placement     
Yazarlar
 Hakkı Çağdaş BASAT Hakkı Çağdaş BASAT
Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Derya Hakan Uçar
Türkiye
Mehmet Armangil
Ankara Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Berk Güçlü
Ufuk Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Mehmet Demirtaş
Özet
Background: Postoperative pain management is the part of shoulder surgery to improve patient satisfaction, start rehabilitation process rapidly and decrease for hospital stay. Various treatment modalities have been used for pain management, but they have some limitations, side effects and risks. Throughout intraoperative and postoperative period, nerve blocks have been used more popularly than others because of efficacy. For the regional nerve block, local anesthetic should be infiltrated close to the nerve for maximum effect. Consequently, aim of this study was to evaluate analgesic efficacy when catheters are placed with assistance of arthroscope to block suprascapular and axillary nerves in patients undergoing arthroscopic repair of rotator cuff under general anesthesia.
Materials and Methods: 24 patients (5 males, 19 females; mean age: 54.3 years) who underwent arthroscopic repair of rotator cuff between June 2014 and September 2014 and were catheterized to block suprascapular and axillary nerves during shoulder arthroscopy were included in the study. Clinical outcomes were assessed using visual analog scale (VAS) scores preoperatively and at 0 h, 6 h, 12 h, 18 h, 24 h, and postoperative day 2.
Results: Preoperative and postoperative 0 h, 6 h, 12 h, 18 h, 24 h, and day 2 mean VAS scores were 6.38 +/- 0.77, 0.44 +/- 0.42, 0.58 +/- 0.42, 0.63 +/- 0.40, 0.60 +/- 0.44, 0.52 +/- 0.42, and 1.55 +/- 0.46, respectively. No statistical difference was found among 0 h, 6 h, 12 h, 18 h, and 24 h time points; however, comparison of postoperative day 2 and postoperative 0 h, 6 h, 12 h, 18h and 24 h VAS scores showed statistically significant difference (P < 0.05). All patients were discharged at the end of 24 h with no complication. The mean time (in minutes) required for blocking suprascapular nerve and axillar nerve were 14.38 +/- 3.21 and 3.75 +/- 0.85, respectively.
Conclusion: These results demonstrated that blocking two nerves with arthroscopic approach was an excellent pain management method in postoperative period. Accordingly, patients could recover rapidly and patients' satisfaction could be improved.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Pain | rotator cuff rupture | shoulder arthroscopy | suprascapular nerve block and axillary nerve block
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı INDIAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDICS
Dergi ISSN 0019-5413
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 11-2016
Cilt No 50
Sayı 6
Sayfalar 584 / 589
Doi Numarası 10.4103/0019-5413.193474
Makale Linki http://www.ijoonline.com/text.asp?2016/50/6/584/193474