Ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block in patients undergoing open inguinal hernia repair: 0.125% bupivacaine provides similar analgesic effect compared to 0.25% bupivacaine

Efficiency of bupivacaine and association with dexmedetomidine in transversus abdominis plane block ultrasound guided in postoperative pain of abdominal surgery

“…Erdoğan Arı et al 10 administered TAP block with 20 mL 0.125% bupivacaine in open inguinal herniorrhaphy and administered 0.25% bupivacaine at the end of surgery, and found the same postoperative morphine consumption.…”

“… 7 Transversus abdominal plane (TAP), one of the peripheral nerve blocks, was reported to reduce postoperative pain following hysterectomy, colorectal surgery, appendectomy, and inguinal hernioplasty. 2 , 3 , 8 , 9 , 10 …”