Friday, 3 August 2012

New trial alert: Ultrasound-guided paravertebral blocks for ambulatory breast cancer surgery

A new trial sponsored by the Women's College Hospital in Ontario has discovered that breast cancer patients have a greater change of recovery, experiencing less pain and nausea upon receiving paravertebral blocks post-surgery. The main hypothesis that principal investigator Dr. Pamela Morgan aims to address is that "patients receiving ultrasound-guided paravertebral blocks (PVB) with propofol-based general anesthesia (GA) will have a better quality of recovery than patients receiving general anesthesia-opioid-analgesia."

To read more about this trial, currently in the recruiting phase, click here.

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