The ‘pecs block’: a novel technique for providing analgesia after breast surgery

I read the recent article by Finnerty and colleagues with interest [1] and would like to present a novel interfascial plane block. Breast surgery is one of the most common forms of surgery conducted in hospitals. Even relatively minor breast surgery can be associated with significant postoperative pain [2]. Paravertebral blocks have become popular as an alternative to the analgesia provided by the ‘gold standard’ of thoracic epidural analgesia [3]. However, both regional techniques have complications that make them unsuitable for day surgery, and therefore unsuited to the large proportion of breast surgery patients who are treated on a day-stay basis. I describe here a simple new alternative approach as a…