Rectus Sheath Block: Postoperative Analgesia and Proinflammatory Cytokines

Summary

Good quality of postoperative analgesia would lead to attenuate or prevent the adverse effects on the common functions of the immune system. We compared the effect of epidural analgesia versus rectus sheath block on postoperative pain and proinflammatory cytokines following malignant urological surgery.

Timeline

Start

2015-03-05

Primary completion

2016-02-01

Completion

2016-04-28

Publications

• Background Hong JY, Lim KT. Effect of preemptive epidural analgesia on cytokine response and postoperative pain in laparoscopic radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2008 Jan-Feb;33(1):44-51. doi: 10.1016/j.rapm.2007.07.010.

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Indications

No indication recorded.