Impact of Loco-regional Analgesia Following Placement of Erector Spinae Plane Catheter in Addition to Systemic Analgesia in Patients With Thoracic Trauma

Erector spinae plane catheter is placed in the post-interventional surveillance room in the operating theatre by an anaesthetist-intensive care physician or in the MIR department by the intensive care physician in charge of the patient within 2 hours after randomisation. The local anaesthetic injected into the catheter is Ropivacaine, prescribed according to a protocol of continuous flow, bolus and refractory period. The catheter is repositioned if a secondary displacement occurs.

Systemic analgesia alone consists only of the 3 levels of analgesic treatment