TAP vs Surgical Infiltration of Local Anesthetic in Laparoscopic and Robotic Hysterectomy

Summary

Laparoscopic and Robotic assisted hysterectomy is a surgical procedure that is a minimally invasive way in which to remove the uterus, which has less scarring and fewer complications. However, this procedure, much like its open-surgical counterpart, is often associated with significant post-operative pain. To augment this pain there are many different analgesic techniques available to offset pain. Ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is one such procedure involving the injection of a local anesthetic into the plane of the transversus abdominal muscle where the terminal branches of nerves lie. A similar, yet different analgesic approach is that of direct injection of local anesthetic into the incision by the surgeon during or just after surgical procedures. These two approaches have both been proven to decrease post-operative pain in patients for many procedures, but never compared to one another.

Timeline

Start

2016-07

Primary completion

2017-05

Completion

2017-06

Publications

• Background Feierman DE, Kronenfeld M, Gupta PM, Younger N, Logvinskiy E. Liposomal bupivacaine infiltration into the transversus abdominis plane for postsurgical analgesia in open abdominal umbilical hernia repair: results from a cohort of 13 patients. J Pain Res. 2014 Aug 16;7:477-82. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S65151. eCollection 2014.
• Background Mitchell AU, Torup H, Hansen EG, Petersen PL, Mathiesen O, Dahl JB, Rosenberg J, Moller AM. Effective dermatomal blockade after subcostal transversus abdominis plane block. Dan Med J. 2012 Mar;59(3):A4404.
• Background Niraj G, Searle A, Mathews M, Misra V, Baban M, Kiani S, Wong M. Analgesic efficacy of ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block in patients undergoing open appendicectomy. Br J Anaesth. 2009 Oct;103(4):601-5. doi: 10.1093/bja/aep175. Epub 2009 Jun 26.
• Background Petersen PL, Mathiesen O, Torup H, Dahl JB. The transversus abdominis plane block: a valuable option for postoperative analgesia? A topical review. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2010 May;54(5):529-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2010.02215.x. Epub 2010 Feb 17.
• Background Singh M, Chin KJ, Chan V. Ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block: a useful adjunct in the management of postoperative respiratory failure. J Clin Anesth. 2011 Jun;23(4):303-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2010.05.012.

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Indications

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