TAP vs Surgical Infiltration of Local Anesthetic in Laparoscopic and Robotic Hysterectomy
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2017-06-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
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.
Phase:
Phase 4
Details
Lead Sponsor:
University of Minnesota University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute