Refining technique and verification to reveal the true potential of the erector spinae plane block

Affiliations

• ¹ Departments of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan; Department of Anaesthesiology, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, 3453 Mikatahara-cho, Kita-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 433-8558, Japan. Electronic address: shingokawasima@yahoo.co.jp.
• ² Departments of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan; Department of Anaesthesiology, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, 3453 Mikatahara-cho, Kita-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 433-8558, Japan.
• ³ Departments of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan; Department of Anaesthesiology, Hamamatsu Medical Center, 328 Tomitsuka-cho, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8580, Japan.
• ⁴ Departments of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan; Department of Anaesthesiology, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, 3453 Mikatahara-cho, Kita-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 433-8558, Japan; Department of Dental Anaesthesiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima 770-8504, Japan.