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Anesthesiology
; 132(5): 1236, 2020 05.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31996552
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A A Pract
; 14(8): e01245, 2020 Jun.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32643910
RESUMEN
A 46-year-old man presented with severe refractory posterior shoulder pain due to a left scapular fracture sustained during a motor vehicle collision. Despite multimodal oral and intravenous analgesics, the patient's pain remained difficult to control. A continuous paravertebral nerve block was performed between the second and third thoracic vertebrae resulting in excellent analgesia of the scapular pain. This case suggests that a continuous thoracic paravertebral block placed between the second and third vertebrae may be considered as part of multimodal analgesia in patients with scapular fractures.