Paravertebral Block (PVB) combined with general anesthesia (GA) is a conventional pain treatment for breast surgery but sometimes failures can occurs. The efficacy of this block has to be evaluated. Also, for the intra-operative analgesic evaluation of this block, it is necessary to measure intra-operative analgesia index. A monitor of nociception for patients under GA, the PhysiodolorisTM device, offers an index for measuring nociceptive inputs during surgery in anesthetized patients : the ANI index (based on the single R-R interval analysis). The purpose of this observational and prospective study is to assess the variations of this ANI index during breast surgery with or without axillary node dissection with a PVB. This will allow us to quantify the analgesic effect of a PVB during GA for unilateral radical breast surgery with or without axillary node dissection.
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Assessment of the ANI index
Timeframe: first minute of the surgical incision