We would like to thank Yang-Xin-Rui Huang and their colleagues for their interest and insightful opinions. The purpose of our study was to determine the postoperative analgesic effectiveness of selective supraclavicular nerve block for pediatric patients undergoing Hickman catheter or chemoport insertion. 1As mentioned in 'limitation' section, multimodal and preemptive analgesia were not fully implemented in this study and postoperative