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ArticleCureus2024

Peripheral Nerve Blockade for Open Inguinal Hernia Repair in a Patient With Severe Cardiopulmonary Disease.

Andrew S Braun, J Drake Wakefield, Promil Kukreja, Jeffrey Simmons, Beomjy Ohlman, Britney Corey, Asaf Gans

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Open inguinal hernioplasty under local, spinal and general anaesthesia: a comparative study.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew S BraunDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, USA.
J Drake WakefieldDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, USA.
Promil KukrejaDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, USA.
Jeffrey SimmonsDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, USA.
Beomjy OhlmanDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, USA.
Britney CoreyDepartment of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, USA.
Asaf GansDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, USA.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with severe cardiopulmonary morbidity present a unique challenge to peri- and intraoperative providers. Inducing general anesthesia in this patient population poses the risk of adverse events that could lead to poor surgical outcomes, prolonged debilitation, or death. Therefore, it is important that anesthesiologists become comfortable with preoperative evaluation as well as alternative strategies to providing surgical anesthesia. This case report details the clinical course of a patient with severe cardiopulmonary morbidity who underwent open inguinal hernia repair without oral or intravenous sedation after receiving multi-level paravertebral blocks in addition to isolated ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve blocks. This medically challenging case provides educational value regarding preoperative evaluation, pertinent anatomy and innervation, and the importance of patient-centered care and communication.

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academic anesthesiologyacute pain managementanatomyinguinal hernia repairlocal anesthesialumbar plexusparavertebral block (pvb)paravertebral spaceregional anesthesiology

Identifiers

PMID38650808
PMCPMC11034705
OpenAlexW4393033576

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