The Role of Bilateral Continuous Transversus Abdominis Plane Block for Postoperative Analgesia in Major Abdominal Surgery: A Case Series

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND AIMThe use of loco-regional anesthesia aims at providing an adequate intra-and/or post-operative pain management for a broad spectrum of surgical interventions which historically have relayed on the use of opiod drugs. On this fashion, the aim of our study is to prove that the use of bilateral continuous subcostal TAP block, in a multimodal opiod-sparing analgesic approach, provides a successful post-operative pain management for major abdominal surgical interventions. We adopted the NRS score as a reference and ≤ 6 as an acceptable response.