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Neuropathic pain after brachial plexus injury (NPBPI) is a highly disabling clinical condition and is increasingly prevalent due to increased motorcycle accidents. Currently, no randomized controlled trials have evaluated the effectiveness of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) in patients suffering from NPBPI. In this study, we directly compare the efficacy of 10-Hz rTMS and anodal 2 mA tDCS techniques applied over the motor cortex (5 daily consecutive sessions) in 20 patients with NPBPI, allocated into 2 parallel groups (active or sham). The order of the sessions was randomised for each of these treatment groups according to a crossover design and separated by a 30-day interval. Scores for "continuous" and "paroxysmal" pain (primary outcome) were tabulated after the last stimulation day and 30 days after. Secondary outcomes included the improvement in multidimensional aspects of pain, anxiety state and quality of life from a qualitative and quantitative approach. Active rTMS and tDCS were both superior to sham in reducing continuous (p < 0.001) and paroxysmal (p = 0.002; p = 0.02) pain as well as in multidimensional aspects of pain (p = 0.001; p = 0.002) and anxiety state (p = < 0.001; p = 0.005). Our results suggest rTMS and tDCS are able to treat NPBPI with little distinction in pain and anxiety state, which may promote the use of tDCS in brachial plexus injury pain management, as it constitutes an easier and more available technique.Clinical Trial Registration: , RBR-5xnjbc - Sep 3, 2018.
Background and objectives: A single injection lumbar plexus block for acute pain management after hip surgery is usually limited to the immediate postoperative period. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine the effect of a continuous lumbar plexus block on perioperative opioid requirements and pain intensity.
Methods: Adult patients undergoing elective hip arthroplasty under general anesthesia were randomized to continuous lumbar plexus block combined with patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) or PCA only for postoperative pain. Patients allocated to the lumbar plexus block had the catheter placed before surgery. Patients were followed for 36 hours. Perioperative opioid requirement was the primary outcome; secondary outcomes included assessment of pain intensity, patient and surgeon satisfaction with the analgesic technique, and occurrence of nausea and vomiting.
Results: Seventeen patients were randomized to each treatment group. Compared with patients in the PCA group, patients in the continuous lumbar plexus block group required less morphine (12 mg) (95% CI, -12.9 to -3.9), had on average less pain (-2.1 units on a 0 to 10 scale) (95% CI, -3.8 to -1.1), were more satisfied with their analgesic technique, and experienced less nausea and vomiting. One patient in the continuous lumbar plexus block developed a delayed paresis and 1 patient in the PCA group developed respiratory depression.
Conclusions: Continuous lumbar plexus block combined with PCA is superior to PCA alone for postoperative pain management following hip replacement. It reduces opioid requirements, opioid related side effects, and enhances patient satisfaction. However, additional research is required to determine its safety in light of the neurologic injury observed.
Nerve blocks, mostly using topical anesthetics, reduce the side effects of anesthesia by using large doses of opioids, which can control postoperative pain effectively. The brachial plexus block (BPB) in particular is a widely used option in upper extremity surgeries. During a BPB, various drugs are used in combination with local anesthetics to help reduce the anesthetics' time to onset of effect, to prolong the duration of action, and to increase the chance of successful blockade. Toward these ends, a number of studies have been done, with varying results [2-11].
The magnesium helps to regulate the amount of calcium inside the cells and is known to be able to control for pain. For example, magnesium sulfate (MgSO4), when injected intravenously, helps reduce the consumption of anesthetics during surgeries; in addition, when administered through epidural injection, it helps to decrease the amount of opioids needed postoperatively [12]. Despite its known benefits for pain control, magnesium has never been studied extensively for its effects as an adjuvant to aesthetics during BPBs, much less for its synergistic effects during BPBs when used in combination with ropivacaine, a local anesthetic used widely in recent years.
The patients were randomly assigned to either group S (ropivacaine-saline injected group) or group M (ropivacaine-magnesium injected group). All patients were transported to the operating room without being administered a preoperative anesthetic or analgesic. Their ECG, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation level were monitored by means of an ECG machine, a noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitor, and a pulse oximeter. To induce general anesthesia in the patients, 2% lidocaine (1 mg/kg) and 1% propofol (2-2.5 mg/kg) were injected intravenously. Upon confirming the induced unconsciousness in the patients, rocuronium (0.6 mg/kg), a nondepolarizing muscle relaxant, was injected intravenously; after 90 seconds, endotracheal intubation was done; the positioning of the tube was checked. O2 and N2O were each maintained at 1 L/m, while desflurane was maintained at 4-6 Vol% depending on the response of the patient's autonomic nervous system. If the systolic blood pressure of the patient increased more than 30% from his or her baseline reading that was taken in their hospital room prior to the anesthesia, 0.5 mg of nicardipine was injected intravenously.
In the recovery room, an anesthesiologist, unaware of the study design (i.e., patient assignment to each of the two treatment groups), collected the patients' VAS pain score, tested their motor and sensory responsiveness, checked the amount of fentanyl administered through the PCA device postoperatively, measured their blood pressure and heart rate, and asked if the patients' experienced any adverse events, such as headache, nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. Data on each of these categories were taken immediately after the surgery, at 30 minutes after the surgery, and at 1 hour after the surgery. In addition, the data were collected at 2 hours, 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, and 24 hours afterwards by visiting the patients in their room. A successful ABPB was defined as the patients' rating their sensory responsiveness as either '1' or '2' on the VAS scale. If the patient reported adverse events such as nausea or vomiting, 4 mg of ondansetron (Ondant Injection, Hanmi Pharm Co., Ltd.) was injected intravenously.
Postoperative pain scores on a visual analogue scale (VAS). Brachial plexus block was performed using 20 ml of 0.2% ropivacaine, added normal saline 2 ml in group S, MgSO4 200 mg in group M. There were no significant difference between the two groups. Data are expressed as mean SD.
Magnesium, a cation existing inside the cell whose quantities are second only to potassium, plays a crucial role in activating enzymes in the cardiovascular system. In addition, magnesium acts as a physiological calcium antagonist. It is used to treat arrhythmia, myocardial or nerve ischemia, and gestational toxicosis, and to inhibit uterine contraction [15,16]. More recently, magnesium's effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonism and sympathetic blocking have been noted, and magnesium is now used to help reduce the consumption of anesthetics and pain medications [12,17]. Magnesium blocks the effects of excitatory amino acids (e.g., glutamate, aspartate) on NMDA receptors and contribute to central sensitization [18,19].
Studies on the pain control effects of magnesium have shown conflicting results. Lee et al. [20] reported that the preoperative intravenous injection of magnesium was effective in controlling postoperative pain. On the contrary, Ko et al. [21] reported that the same approach was not effective.
There are only a small number of studies that have used MgSO4 during BPBs. Gunduz et al. [22] used prilocaine, a local anesthetic, during a BPB and observed that the drug, when used in combination with magnesium, prolonged the duration of the sensory and motor nerve block without causing adverse events. Goyal et al. [23] reported that the injection of MgSO4 into the axillary sheath, without adding a topical anesthetic, reduced postoperative pain. In this study, we used ropivacaine in combination with magnesium during ABPBs. The use of magnesium, however, did not result in significant differences in postoperative VAS pain scores or fentanyl consumption between the two groups. Differences between this study and the study by Gunduz et al. [22] were the use of ropivacaine and the adoption of a different dose (20 ml) during the block. We used ropivacaine because it has a higher threshold value than lidocaine and offers a longer duration of action, and because it has less cardiovascular toxicity than bupivacaine. However, we note the combination of prilocaine and magnesium (the study by Gunduz et al.) and the combination of ropivacaine and magnesium (this study) might have resulted in different pain control effects of magnesium. As for our use of a smaller dose, we used 20 ml of ropivacaine because our aim was at reducing postoperative pain resulting from general anesthesia during ABPBs and not to provide an adjuvant drug for the anesthesia during a block, which was the case in the study by Gunduz et al. [22]. Another reason why we considered our selected dose to be sufficient enough to control postoperative pain was due to the study by Goyal et al. [23] that used the same dose (i.e., 20 ml) of magnesium without any other anesthetics during a BPB in order to control postoperative pain.
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