NCT02914028

TAP Block and Subacute Pain in Inguinal Herniography

Evaluation of the Effects of Subcostal Transversus Abdominis Plane Block on Subacute Pain Development Following Inguinal Herniography: a Randomized Clinical Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Postoperative Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	transversus abdominis plane block	A peripheric block needle is inserted entering the facia between musculus rectus abdominis and musculus transversus abdominis with ultrasonography and local anesthetics are injected in the facia.
DRUG	Tramadol and paracetamol	Tramadol 100 mg and paracetamol 1000 mg are applied to the patients at the end of the surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-01
• Primary completion: 2016-08-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2016-09-26
• Last updated: 2019-02-27