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Complications of the paravertebral block are rare. They include vascular or lung injury, hypotension and pneumothorax. Paravertebral block is used in thoracic surgery (lung resections, rib fractures), general surgery (as in cholecystectomy, inguinal hernia surgery, liver surgery and breast surgery). [1] [2] [3] [4]
The paravertebral block is versatile and can be used for various surgeries depending on the vertebral level it is done. A block at the neck in the cervical region is useful for thyroid gland and carotid artery surgery. [61] At the chest and abdomen in the thoracic region, blocks are used for breast, thoracic, and abdominal surgery. [61]
It is thought that anesthetic is spread along the paravertebral muscles to the stellate ganglion. Stellate ganglion block also shows great potential as a means of reducing the number of hot flashes and night awakenings suffered by breast cancer survivors and women experiencing severe symptoms of menopause.
The sympathetic ganglia, or paravertebral ganglia, are autonomic ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. Ganglia are 20,000 to 30,000 afferent and efferent nerve cell bodies that run along on either side of the spinal cord. Afferent nerve cell bodies bring information from the body to the brain and spinal cord, while efferent nerve cell ...
Free-flap breast reconstruction is a type of autologous-tissue breast reconstruction applied after mastectomy for breast cancer, without the emplacement of a breast implant prosthesis. As a type of plastic surgery, the free-flap procedure for breast reconstruction employs tissues, harvested from another part of the woman's body, to create a ...
A serving of 100 grams (about 3.5 ounces) of skinless, boneless chicken breast has 165 calories and 31 grams of protein, while the same amount of skinless, boneless turkey breast has 115 calories ...
President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his New York criminal hush money case. But he has already pledged to appeal.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chair and top Democrat on a U.S. House of Representatives committee on China told the CEOs of Google-parent Alphabet and Apple on Friday they must be ready to remove ...