A Study to Compare Laparoscopic to Echographic Assisted Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in Laparoscopic Colectomy

Completed 116 enrolled Davide La Regina

RandomizedParallel-groupDouble-blindTreatment

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the postoperative pain, the time needed and other clinical outcomes in patients who, during laparoscopic colectomy, will be injected with a local anesthetic (Ropivacaine) through an ultrasound guided technique performed by the anaesthesiologist or throught a laparoscopic assisted technique performed by the surgeon

Timeline

Start: 2018-01-15
Primary completion: 2022-01-11
Completion: 2022-01-11

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper the non-inferiority of the L-TAPB was confirmed. PMID 37525414 ↗

Publications

La Regina D, Popeskou SG, Saporito A, Gaffuri P, Tasciotti E, Dossi R, Christoforidis D, Mongelli F. Laparoscopic versus ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block in colorectal surgery: a non-inferiority, multicentric randomized double-blinded clinical trial. Colorectal Dis. 2023 Sep;25(9):1921-1928. doi: 10.1111/codi.16689. Epub 2023 Jul 31.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Ropivacaine	Other / unclassified	0.2 %	Other
Subject	Ropivacaine	Other / unclassified	15 ml	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.