TAP Block Versus Local Anesthesia Wound Infiltration for Postoperative Pain Relief After Appendicectomy in Children
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-05-25
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
When performing laparoscopic appendectomy in children, regional anesthetic techniques are
rou-tinely used concomitantly with general anesthesia. These techniques include local
infiltration of the trocar wounds or transverse abdominal plane block (TAP block). In 2018, a
position paper of the European Society of Pediatric Anaesthesiology advised for TAP block
over local infiltration of the trocar wounds. However, there is no randomized study comparing
both techniques in children. The aim of this study is to compare morphine consumption during
the first 24 postoperative hours in children undergoing laparoscopic appendectomy and
randomly allocated to either local infiltration of the trocar wounds or TAP block.