Background Postoperative pain management is of great importance in perioperative
anesthetic care. Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block has been described as an …

Introduction Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the gold standard technique for
gallbladder diseases in both acute and elective surgery. Nevertheless, reports from national …

This is the third edition of Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence. The first two were
published in 1999 and 2005, respectively. This third edition sums up the evidence currently …

Aim The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the available literature on the
management of pain after laparoscopic colorectal surgery. Method Randomized studies …

Pain relief after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is an issue of great practical importance.
Pain after LC has several origins: incisional, local visceral, peritoneal, and referred. Several …

Background Both transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block and local anesthetic wound
infiltration have been used to relieve pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. We undertook …

Wound infiltration with local anaesthetics is a simple, effective and inexpensive means of
providing good analgesia for a variety of surgical procedures without any major side‐effects …

Objective To compare spinal anesthesia with the gold standard general anesthesia for
elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy in healthy patients. Design Controlled randomized …

Background/purpose With the advent of minimally invasive gallbladder surgery, and now
with natural orifice techniques emerging, visceral nociception has been neglected as a …

AIM: To systematically evaluate the effect of intraperitoneal local anesthetic on pain
characteristics after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). METHODS: We searched …