Revista de Anestesiologia Clínica: Acesso Aberto

Different doses of dexmetomedine as adjuvant to bupivacaine in ultrasound guided transversus abdominis plane block in children undergoing lower abdominal surgery

Abstract

Hala Kaptan and Nagwa Mohamed Doha

Post-operative pain management in pediatric patients is essential, development of safe and effective techniques is very important. (1)

Historically, pain management in children has been poor, but in the last decades many advances have been made. (2)

The transversus abdominis plane block (TAP block) have been tried successfully in adults for post-operative pain, its role in children remains unclear. (3)

TAP block was first described by Rafi in 2001(4). It is a compartmental block, it pr0vides analgesia to parietal peritoneum, skin and muscles of anterior abdominal wall(5) .