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Analgesic Effect Of Bilateral Subcostal Tap Block After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, Karima Karam Khan, Robyna Irshad Khan
Analgesic Effect Of Bilateral Subcostal Tap Block After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, Karima Karam Khan, Robyna Irshad Khan
Department of Anaesthesia
Background: Pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is mild to moderate in intensity. Several modalities are employed for achieving safe and effective postoperative analgesia, the benefits of which adds to the early recovery of the patients. As a part of multimodal analgesia, various approaches of Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block has been used for management of parietal and incisional components of pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. This study was designed to compare the analgesic efficacy of two different approaches of ultrasound guided TAP block, i.e., Subcostal-TAP block technique with ultrasound guided Posterior-TAP block for postoperative pain management in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy under …