Ultrasound Guided TAP Block for Postoperative Analgesia After Abdominal Surgery.

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is a novel type of peripheral nerve block that involves innervations of the anterolateral abdominal wall derived from T6-L1.It provides adequate post-operative pain relieve following the various abdominal surgeries. Theoretically, TAP block may replace the need for epidural analgesia after abdominal operations. The oblique subcostal approach of the TAP (OSTAP) block, which was de¬scribed by (Hebbard et al, 2010) , has been reported to provide analgesia to the entire anterior abdomen.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

BMI< 30kg/m2.

• Age: 18-60 years.

• Sex: both males and females.

• ASA physical status: 1-II.

• Operation: Abdominal laparotomy.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusal.

• History of cardiac disease, psychological disorders, respiratory diseases including asthma, renal or hepatic failure.

• Coagulation disorders.

• Allergy to study medications.

• Chronic use of pain medications.

• Pregnancy.

• Respiratory tract in-fection within the last 2 weeks.

• Heavy smoker.

• Histo-ry of abdominal surgery or trauma.