Rania K Abbasi, Anne E Cossu, Brandon Tanner, Peter Castelluccio, Matthew Hamilton, John Brown, Jeremy Herrmann
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The management of post-operative pain after surgical repair of pectus excavatum with the Ravitch procedure is challenging. Although previous studies have compared various methods of pain control in these patients, few have compared different local anesthetics. This retrospective analysis compares the use of bupivacaine to its longer-acting form, liposomal bupivacaine, in patients who had undergone pectus excavatum repair with the Ravitch method. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Eleven patients who received local infiltration with liposomal bupivacaine were matched to 11 patients who received local infiltration utilizing bupivacaine with epinephrine...
2023: Journal of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology