TAP Block and Subacute Pain in Inguinal Herniography

Istanbul University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Pain

Treatments: Drug: Tramadol and paracetamol; Procedure: transversus abdominis plane block

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02914028

235901

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full description

Patients were divided into two groups, one is control and the second is subcostal transversus abdominis plane block (STAP) group. After standard general anesthesia application, control group ( Group I) had 1 gram of paracetamol and 100 mg of contramal just after starting surgical closure. Group II (STAP) had 1 gram of paracetamol and 100 mg of contramal, after surgical closure transversus abdominis plane block in subcostal area was applied to the patient.

Enrollment: 2 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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2 participants in 2 patient groups

Tramadol and paracetamol

Active Comparator group

Description:

subjects were administered intravenous analgesia (control group) Tramadol 100 mg and paracetamol 1000 mg at the end of the surgery

Treatment:

Drug: Tramadol and paracetamol

transversus abdominis plane block

Active Comparator group

Description:

patients that applied transversus abdominis plane block at the end of the surgery after given intravenous analgesia

Treatment:

Procedure: transversus abdominis plane block

Drug: Tramadol and paracetamol