NCT03342040

Transverse Abdominis Plane Block in Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair

Randomized Clinical Trial: Transverse Abdominis Plane Block Versus no Block in Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: GEM Hospital & Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The current study aims to determine if transverse abdominis plane block using local anesthetic agents (bupivacaine 0.25% + Ropivacaine 0.20%) decreases the post operative pain and helps in early mobilization or discharge from hospital in patients undergoing laparoscopic ventral hernia repair.

Detailed description

Patients meeting inclusion criteria would be randomised after admission. Those patients in experimental arm shall receive the TAP block under USG guidance while those in control arm do not receive any block. Surgery shall be proceeded in the usual manner in all the patients and assessment for pain starts in the immediate post operative or recovery room after the patient is completely conscious. The total amount of analgesic required by the patient is measured. Pain assessment is done using the visual analog scale (VAS) at regular intervals until follow up review.

Conditions

• Ventral Hernia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair with TAP block	Transverse abdominis plane block is given under ultrasound guidance during laparoscopic ventral hernia surgery
PROCEDURE	Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair without TAP block	No block administered during Laparoscopic ventral hernia surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-10-15
• Primary completion: 2019-01-01
• Completion: 2019-02-01
• First posted: 2017-11-14
• Last updated: 2019-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: India