Ultrasound Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane(TAP) Block in Intensive Care Unit

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2017-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The Transversus Abdominis Block (TAP) block is known to be an effective means of reducing patient pain after abdominal surgery. In the meantime, the general TAP block has been studied in patients who were in the recovery room and the ward after surgery. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of pain reduction and opioid saving effects in patients with TAP block in ICU settings.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults over 20 years of age

• Patients who entered the intensive care unit for monitoring and recovery after colonic resection through laparotomy

• Patients who voluntarily sign a written informed consent and know they have the right to withdraw their consent at any time.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are unconscious and require sedation below the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (-2) Patients who need continuous renal replacement therapy, cardiopulmonary bypass Patients with a history of allergic reactions to local anesthetics Patients resistant to narcotic analgesics (users of existing long-term narcotic analgesics) Patients who can not use self-analgesic treatment Patients who underwent surgery for organs other than abdomen and pelvis Patients with severe blood clotting disorders with a Prothrombin Time International normalized ratio of 2.0 or greater and Platelet less than 50,000