Response to letter to the editor on "Continuous paravertebral block combined with multilevel single-shot intercostal nerve blocks for pain control after thoracotomy"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Aga Khan University, 2nd floor Private Wing, Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi, 74800, Pakistan. malika.hameed@gmail.com.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Aga Khan University, 2nd floor Private Wing, Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi, 74800, Pakistan.

Comment

Malika Hameed et al. J Anesth. 2024 Feb.

. 2024 Feb;38(1):152-153.

doi: 10.1007/s00540-023-03308-y. Epub 2024 Jan 11.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Aga Khan University, 2nd floor Private Wing, Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi, 74800, Pakistan. malika.hameed@gmail.com.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Aga Khan University, 2nd floor Private Wing, Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi, 74800, Pakistan.

No abstract available

Keywords: Acute pain; Analgesics; Nerve block; Opioid; Pain; Thoracotomy.

Comment on

Continuous paravertebral block combined with multilevel single-shot intercostal nerve blocks for pain control after thoracotomy.
Yuan YJ, Li XY, Xue FS. Yuan YJ, et al. J Anesth. 2024 Feb;38(1):150-151. doi: 10.1007/s00540-023-03300-6. Epub 2023 Dec 19. J Anesth. 2024. PMID: 38112827 No abstract available.

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