Does paravertebral block require access to the paravertebral space?

Paravertebral Block

This booklet consists of the addresses delivered at the opening of the new laboratory for biochemical research at McLean Hospital. Cecil K. Drinker reviews the history of research at McLean Hospital. Jordi Foich surveys biochemical research in psychiatry with emphasis on his own contributions to the chemical constitution of the brain. The record of reasearch at the Psychiatric Service of the Ma...

Thoracic paravertebral block.

THORACIC paravertebral block (TPVB) is the technique of injecting local anesthetic adjacent to the thoracic vertebra close to where the spinal nerves emerge from the intervertebral foramina. This results in ipsilateral somatic and sympathetic nerve blockade in multiple contiguous thoracic dermatomes above and below the site of injection. It is effective in treating acute and chronic pain of uni...

Thoracic paravertebral nerve block.

Total Spinal Block after Thoracic Paravertebral Block.

Thoracic paravertebral block (TPVB) can be performed with or without general anaesthesia for various surgical procedures. TPVB is a popular anaesthetic technique due to its low side effect profile and high analgesic potency. We used 20 mL of 0.5% levobupivacaine for a single injection of unilateral TPVB at the T7 level with neurostimulator in a 63 year old patient with co-morbid disease who und...

Subcutaneous paravertebral block for renal colic.

A 26-yr-old woman, with an intrauterine pregnancy at 29 6⁄7 weeks’ gestation, presented to the emergency room of The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center reporting severe pain in the right flank. Abdominal ultrasound did not show a renal or ureteral calculus, but delayed contrast filling of the right urinary collecting system seen on an abdominal computed tomography scan was consistent with right u...