The efficacy and safety of DepoFoam bupivacaine in patients undergoing bilateral, cosmetic, submuscular augmentation mammaplasty: a randomized, double-blind, active-control study.

Background: Breast augmentation can result in significant postsurgical pain.

Objectives: The authors evaluate the extent and duration of analgesia achieved with extended-release DepoFoam bupivacaine (Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Parsippany, New Jersey) in patients undergoing bilateral, cosmetic, submuscular augmentation mammaplasty under general anesthesia.

Retrospective review of the internal Doppler probe for intra- and postoperative microvascular surveillance.

The purpose of this review was to evaluate the utility of the 20 MHz microvascular implantable Doppler probe for free-tissue transfer, both intra- and postoperatively. Over a 15-month period, the Doppler probe was used in a total of 260 anastomoses, including 118 arterial and 142 venous microanastamoses. In these 260 anastomoses, there were six false positive results and eight true positives, resulting in one flap loss.