Toronto—To block or not to block during breast cancer surgery: That is the question two experts debated at the 2016 International Symposium of Ultrasound for Regional Anesthesia.
“There is enough evidence of short- and long-term benefits with paravertebral block [PVB] to encourage this as standard practice,” said Faraj Abdallah, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto, and staff anesthesiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital in