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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0484-7903</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista mexicana de anestesiología]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. mex. anestesiol.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0484-7903</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Colegio Mexicano de Anestesiología A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S0484-79032025000200107</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.35366/119205</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Bloqueo de escalpe guiado por ultrasonido en neurocirugía]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Ultrasound-guided scalp block in neurosurgery]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hernández-Gómez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Edgar Alejandro]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[García-Vargas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Paulina Michelle]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Centro Médico ISSEMYM «Lic. Arturo Montiel Rojas»  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Toluca ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Centro Médico ISSEMYM «Lic. Arturo Montiel Rojas»  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Toluca ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>48</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>107</fpage>
<lpage>110</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0484-79032025000200107&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0484-79032025000200107&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0484-79032025000200107&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: El ultrasonido (USG, por sus siglas en inglés) ha innovado el campo de la anestesia regional. El bloqueo de escalpe es poco utilizado y desconocido tanto por anestesiólogos como por neurocirujanos. Presentamos el caso de un hombre de 56 años con diagnóstico de meningioma de la convexidad frontal, con alteración de funciones ejecutivas, programado para craneotomía y resección. Se colocó un bloqueo de escalpe ecoguiado bilateral. Se utilizaron 28 mL de bupivacaína isobárica 0.5%. No se infiltraron las áreas de colocación de pinchos. El paciente no requirió rescates analgésicos hasta su egreso 48 horas posteriores; con lo anterior se demuestra la bondad y viabilidad de este recurso analgésico como coadyuvante en anestesia general en neurocirugía.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: Ultrasound has innovated the field of regional anesthesia. The scalp block is seldomly little used and mostly unknown by anesthesiologists and neurosurgeons. We present a clinical case of a 56-year-old man with a diagnosis of frontal convexity meningioma, with executive function disorders, scheduled for craniotomy and resection. A bilateral ultrasound-guided scalp block was placed using 28 mL of 0.5% isobaric bupivacaine were used; the areas where the spikes were placed were not infiltrated. The patient did not require rescue analgesics until he was discharged 48 hours later; thus we demostrate the usefulness viability of this analgesic resource as an adjuvant in general anesthesia in neurosurgery.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[dolor postcraneotomía]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[neurocirugía]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[scalp block]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[ultrasound]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[postcraniotomy pain]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[neurosurgery]]></kwd>
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