Opioid-free management of postoperative sternotomy-related pain by continuous transversus thoracis plane block in a dog.

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We describe a continuous bilateral transversus thoracis plane (TTP) block in an 11-year-old entire female mixed-breed dog, weighing 8.4 kg, undergoing sternotomy for thymoma removal. Preanaesthetic examination and blood analysis were unremarkable and an American Society of Anesthesiologists status of II was assigned. After saphenous vein cannulation (Covetrus, the Netherlands), intravenous methadone (0.2 mg kg-1; Semfortan, Dechra, Spain) was administered. Anaesthesia was induced with intravenous propofol (5 mg kg-1; Propomitor, Ecuphar, Spain) and maintained with sevoflurane (Sevoflo, Ecuphar, Spain).

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