Papers of the Week

Appropriate postoperative pain management in shoulder surgeries is the mainstay of rehabilitation therapy and subsequent improved functional outcomes. However, adequate pain control either with opioids or interscalene brachial plexus block is often challenged by their side effects. In this context, this study compared the suprascapular nerve block (SSNB) to the newly emerging erector spinae plane block at the second thoracic vertebral level (high thoracic-ESPB) as an alternative pain therapy.