Analgesic Effect of Continuous Intercostal Nerve Block Infusion Compared to Continuous Thoracic Epidural Analgesia

Abstract

  Acute post-nephrectomy pain has been controlled by continuous thoracic epidural analgesia. We evaluated the effect of a continuous intercostal nerve block to control post-nephrectomy pain compared to continuous epidural analgesia.
  Analgesic effect of continuous intercostal nerve block was the same as that of continuous epidural analgesia.