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S1:E6 "Keeping A-breast of Chest Wall Blocks: Regional Anesthesia for Breast Surgery"

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Regional Anesthesia for the Smaller Cases?

In the old days, didn't they used to do thoracic epidurals for everyone? How old do you think I am? No. The only time when I have used regional anesthesia is if the patient has said that they don't want to have a general anesthetic and actually then I've done a pectus seratus or seratus centereoplane block. "I never saw anybody do blocks for breast surgery in my training," he says.

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