Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28144162›Full record

ArticleJournal of pain research2017

Thoracic epidural catheter for postoperative pain control following an ineffective transversus abdominis plane block using liposome bupivacaine.

Brian D Terrien, David Espinoza, Charles C Stehman, Gabriel A Rodriguez, Nicholas C Connolly

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Article in Journal of pain research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brian D TerrienDepartment of Anesthesiology, Naval Medical Center San Diego.
David EspinozaSurface Warfare Medical Institute, San Diego.
Charles C StehmanDepartment of Anesthesiology, Robert E. Bush Naval Hospital, Twenty Nine Palms, CA, USA.
Gabriel A RodriguezDepartment of Anesthesiology, Naval Medical Center San Diego.
Nicholas C ConnollyDepartment of Anesthesiology, Naval Medical Center San Diego.
Naval Medical Center San Diego · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 24-year-old female with a history of ulcerative colitis underwent colectomy. The patient received an ineffective transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block with liposome bupivacaine (Exparel) intraoperatively and was started on a hydromorphone patient-controlled analgesia 5 hours after the TAP block, which did not relieve her pain. A continuous thoracic epidural (CTE) was then placed after blood levels of bupivacaine were drawn, and the patient immediately experienced significant pain relief. The combined use of liposome bupivacaine and bupivacaine CTE infusion in the postoperative management of this patient demonstrated no safety concerns, provided excellent analgesia and plasma concentrations of bupivacaine remained far below toxic levels.

Indexed as

liposome bupivacaine (bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension)plasma bupi-vacaine levelsthoracic epiduraltransversus abdominis plane (TAP) nerve block

Identifiers

PMID28144162
PMCPMC5248976
OpenAlexW2576878995

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