Continuous Local Anesthetic Wound Infusions as Postoperative Standard of Care in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

To the Editor We thank Gostian et al for their study demonstrating a reduction in postoperative pain when continuous wound infusion (CWI) was used after head and neck oncological resections. The authors call for CWI to be assimilated into the multimodal postoperative analgesic concept in patients. However, prior to widespread implementation, we find it prudent to draw attention to a few caveats to the study ’s conclusions.
Source: JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery - Category: ENT & OMF Source Type: research