Single injection ultrasound-guided rectus sheath blocks for children: Distribution of injected anesthetic.


Journal

Paediatric anaesthesia
ISSN: 1460-9592
Titre abrégé: Paediatr Anaesth
Pays: France
ID NLM: 9206575

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2019
Historique:
received: 12 06 2018
revised: 04 12 2018
accepted: 10 12 2018
pubmed: 5 1 2019
medline: 19 9 2019
entrez: 5 1 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Single injection ultrasound-guided rectus sheath blocks are used for postoperative analgesia after midline abdominal incisions, but the ultrasonographic spread of medication posterior to the rectus muscle has not been investigated. The primary goal of this study was to determine the ultrasound-measured medication spread superiorly and inferiorly after single injection ultrasound-guided rectus sheath blocks and to calculate the incidence of cases with spread up to the subcostal margin and below of umbilicus. The secondary goals were to correlate the spread with the volume of medication administered and with the patient's age, weight, height, sex, and body mass index. Pediatric patients who underwent single injection ultrasound-guided rectus sheath blocks and underwent data collection of ultrasonographic information on medication spread along the plane of the posterior rectus sheath were identified retrospectively from an acute pain service database at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Sixty-eight children, 10.2 ± 4.2 (mean ± SD) years old, 41.7 ± 17.9 kg, 140 ± 24.6 cm, had complete data collection. Mean injected volume of ropivacaine was 8.3 ± 2.8 mL (right) and 8.2 ± 2.8 mL (left). The average spread was measured as 3.9 ± 1.4 cm (right) and 3.4 ± 1.3 cm (left) cranial to the umbilicus, and 1.5 ± 1.6 cm (right) and 1.6 ± 1.4 cm (left) caudal to the umbilicus. Complete spread up to the level of the subcostal margin was observed in 52.9% (n = 36; right) and 36.8% (n = 25; left) of cases. The spread correlated closely with the volume of injected ropivacaine (right: 0.556, P < 0.001; left: 0.541, P < 0.001). The spread below umbilicus was 70.6% (n = 48, right) and 80.9% (n = 55, left). There was a positive strong correlation (P < 0.001) between total medication spread and age (right: 0.608; left: 0.538), weight (right: 0.600; left: 0.540), and height (right: 0.593; left: 0.526). After single injection ultrasound-guided rectus sheath blocks, incomplete cephalocaudal medication spread can be expected within the posterior rectus sheath.

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BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Single injection ultrasound-guided rectus sheath blocks are used for postoperative analgesia after midline abdominal incisions, but the ultrasonographic spread of medication posterior to the rectus muscle has not been investigated.
AIMS OBJECTIVE
The primary goal of this study was to determine the ultrasound-measured medication spread superiorly and inferiorly after single injection ultrasound-guided rectus sheath blocks and to calculate the incidence of cases with spread up to the subcostal margin and below of umbilicus. The secondary goals were to correlate the spread with the volume of medication administered and with the patient's age, weight, height, sex, and body mass index.
METHODS METHODS
Pediatric patients who underwent single injection ultrasound-guided rectus sheath blocks and underwent data collection of ultrasonographic information on medication spread along the plane of the posterior rectus sheath were identified retrospectively from an acute pain service database at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
RESULTS RESULTS
Sixty-eight children, 10.2 ± 4.2 (mean ± SD) years old, 41.7 ± 17.9 kg, 140 ± 24.6 cm, had complete data collection. Mean injected volume of ropivacaine was 8.3 ± 2.8 mL (right) and 8.2 ± 2.8 mL (left). The average spread was measured as 3.9 ± 1.4 cm (right) and 3.4 ± 1.3 cm (left) cranial to the umbilicus, and 1.5 ± 1.6 cm (right) and 1.6 ± 1.4 cm (left) caudal to the umbilicus. Complete spread up to the level of the subcostal margin was observed in 52.9% (n = 36; right) and 36.8% (n = 25; left) of cases. The spread correlated closely with the volume of injected ropivacaine (right: 0.556, P < 0.001; left: 0.541, P < 0.001). The spread below umbilicus was 70.6% (n = 48, right) and 80.9% (n = 55, left). There was a positive strong correlation (P < 0.001) between total medication spread and age (right: 0.608; left: 0.538), weight (right: 0.600; left: 0.540), and height (right: 0.593; left: 0.526).
CONCLUSION CONCLUSIONS
After single injection ultrasound-guided rectus sheath blocks, incomplete cephalocaudal medication spread can be expected within the posterior rectus sheath.

Identifiants

pubmed: 30609170
doi: 10.1111/pan.13577
doi:

Substances chimiques

Anesthetics, Local 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

280-285

Informations de copyright

Published 2019. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

Auteurs

Mihaela Visoiu (M)

Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

John Hauber (J)

Lewis Katz School of Medicine of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Stefan Scholz (S)

Department of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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