PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Debbag, Sehend
AU  - Sarıcaoğlu, Fatma
TI  - Pectoral nerve block as the sole anesthetic technique for a modified radical mastectomy in a comorbid patient
AID  - 10.15537/smj.2019.12.24644
DP  - 2019 Dec 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 1285--1289
VI  - 40
IP  - 12
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/40/12/1285.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/40/12/1285.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2019 Dec 01; 40
AB  - Breast surgery operations are generally performed by general anesthesia. In order to decrease postoperative pain, regional anesthesia is usually combined with general anesthesia. Pectoral nerve blocks is a novel technique to provide perioperative and postoperative pain control for patients underwent breast surgery. We performed pectoral nerve block I and pectoral nerve block II as a sole anesthetic technique with sedation by dexmedetomidine for modified radical mastectomy, for a 75-year-old female patient with multiple diseases. Pectoral nerve blocks with sedation could be a good technique for breast surgery than general anesthesia in comorbid patients.