Hernández-Gómez EA, García-Vargas PM

Language: Spanish
References: 19
Page: 107-110
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ABSTRACT

Ultrasound has innovated the field of regional anesthesia. The scalp block is seldomly little used and mostly unknown by anesthesiologists and neurosurgeons. We present a clinical case of a 56-year-old man with a diagnosis of frontal convexity meningioma, with executive function disorders, scheduled for craniotomy and resection. A bilateral ultrasound-guided scalp block was placed using 28 mL of 0.5% isobaric bupivacaine were used; the areas where the spikes were placed were not infiltrated. The patient did not require rescue analgesics until he was discharged 48 hours later; thus we demostrate the usefulness viability of this analgesic resource as an adjuvant in general anesthesia in neurosurgery.

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