Response to "Unequal Local Anesthetic Dosing and Surgical Heterogeneity: Considerations for Interpreting the ESPB-TEA Non-Inferiority Trial" [Response to Letter].

J Pain Res · 2026 · PMC13220816 · PMID 42222645

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Liu and Lu raise concerns about performance bias from unblinded proceduralists and note that rescue analgesia in the post-anesthesia care unit was required by 69.6% of ESPB patients versus 42.9% of TEA patients, a gap that did not reach statistical significance.

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