MUSCULOCUTANEOUS NERVE BLOCK AFTER PECTORAL BLOCK – A RARE SIDE EFFECT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31379/2411.2616.15.1.11Keywords:
musculocutaneous nerve block, pectoral block, intensive care, postoperative analgesia.Abstract
Pectoral nerve blocks have become a common component of anesthesia for cosmetic and reconstructive breast procedures. Blockade of the lateral pectoral nerve improves postoperative analgesia in operations requiring implant insertion in the submuscular plane. Though this regional anesthesia provides reliable analgesia, without the potential risk of a neuraxial block, it is not complicationfree. We present two patients who experienced a blocked musculocutaneous nerve after pectoral nerve block. According to our knowledge, this rare side effect was not previously described in the literature.
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