Impact of paravertebral blocks on analgesic and non-analgesic outcomes after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: A propensity matched cohort study

• Yatish S. Ranganath,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6106-4687

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• Vendhan Ramanujam,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Yoshiko Onodera,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7061-4217

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• John Keech,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery – Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Evgeny Arshava,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery – Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Kalpaj R. Parekh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery – Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Rakesh V. Sondekoppam

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rakesh-sondekoppam@uiowa.edu

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1132-9066

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