ReviewFrontiers in medicine2022
Regional Analgesia in Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery: A Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis.
Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Pain Control After VATS Anatomical Pulmonary Resections: Randomized Comparison Between Cryoanalgesia, Erector Spinae Plane Block and Epidural Catheter
A Randomized Comparison of Cutaneous Sensory Blockade Between Ultrasound Guided Single and Triple Injections of Intertransverse Process Block in Patients Undergoing Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
Comparison of the Effect of Preoperative and Postoperative Erector Spina Plan Block and Paravertebral Block on Postoperative Pain in Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dexamethasone as an adjuvant to continuous erector spinae plane block for postoperative analgesia after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for pulmonary nodule surgery: a randomized controlled trial.Annals of medicine · 2026Trial
- Intraoperative hypotension burden and early postoperative recovery after uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic lung resection: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
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- Development and validation of a prediction model for chronic post-surgical pain risk: a single-center prospective study of video-assisted thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2025Article
- Ultrasound-Guided Selective Thoracic Nerve Root Block Combined with Continuous Erector Spinae Plane Block for Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Case Report.Local and regional anesthesia · 2025Article
- The association of regional block with intraoperative opioid consumption in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a single-center, retrospective study.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2024Article
- Regional block techniques for pain management after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a covariate-adjusted Bayesian network meta-analysis.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of Thoracic Wall Blocks in Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery, a Network Meta-Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2023Article
- Thoracic surgery in the non-intubated spontaneously breathing patient.Respiratory research · 2022Review
- The Analgesic Efficacy of the Single Erector Spinae Plane Block with Intercostal Nerve Block Is Not Inferior to That of the Thoracic Paravertebral Block with Intercostal Nerve Block in Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Background: A variety of regional analgesia methods are used during video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). Our network meta-analysis (NMA) sought to evaluate the advantages of various methods of localized postoperative pain management in VATS patients. Methods: PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and EMBASE were searched from their date of inception to May 2021 for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing two or more types of locoregional analgesia in adults using any standardized clinical criteria. This was done using Bayesian NMA. Results: A total of 3,563 studies were initially identified, and 16 RCTs with a total of 1,144 participants were ultimately included. These studies, which spanned the years 2014 to 2021 and included data from eight different countries, presented new information. There were a variety of regional analgesia techniques used, and in terms of analgesic effect, thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA) [SMD (standard mean difference) = 1.12, CrI (Credible interval): (-0.08 to -2.33)], thoracic paravertebral block (TPVB) (SMD = 0.67, CrI: (-0.25 to 1.60) and erector spinae plane block (ESPB) (SMD = 0.34, CrI: (-0.5 to 1.17) were better than other regional analgesia methods. Conclusion: Overall, these findings show that TEA, TPVB and ESPB may be effective forms of regional analgesia in VATS. This research could be a valuable resource for future efforts regarding the use of thoracic regional analgesia and enhanced recovery after surgery. Systematic Review Registration: Identifier [PROSPERO CRD42021253218].
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