TAP Block and Subacute Pain in Inguinal Herniography

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Inguinal hernia repair with mesh has a high incidence of postoperative chronic pain. Transversus abdominis plane block is a current intervention to support postoperative analgesia, however it is recently in research area how to be applied in different surgical areas to be more effective than intravenous opioids. Subcostal transversus abdominis plane block is not advised but has not been studied to be effective for postoperative analgesia in inguinal herniography patients.

This study aims to research the effect of subcostal transversus abdominis plane block in subacute postoperative pain after inguinal hernia repair

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Istanbul University
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Tramadol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA I-III

• who were to undergo elective unilateral inguinal herniography with "mesh" under general anesthesia.

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients who have allergy to local anesthetics