[Expert consensus on analgesia for image-guided thermal ablation of tumors]

Image-guided thermal ablation (IGTA) has been applied in the treatment of tumors, and the number of patients treated is increasing rapidly every year. The Ablation Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology, the Society of Tumor Ablation Therapy of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association,the Tumor Ablation Committee of the Chinese College of Interventionalists, and the Expert Group on Tumor Ablation Therapy of the Chinese Medical Doctors provided the platform for multidisciplinary experts to formulate the "Expert consensus on analgesia for image-guided tumor thermal ablation (2022 Edition)". The main contents of the"Expert consensus"include: (1) preparation of medicines and equipment; (2) Multimodal analgesia, local anesthesia, regional nerve block or spinal anesthesia combined with analgesic sedation, general anesthesia; (3) common adverse reactions and management of perioperative anesthesia.