Background This is the fourth updated Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society
guideline presenting a consensus for optimal perioperative care in colorectal surgery and …

Purpose of Review. Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is a regional technique for
analgesia of the anterolateral abdominal wall. This review highlights the nomenclature …

Advances in ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia and introduction of newer long acting
local anaesthetics have given clinicians an opportunity to apply novel approaches to block …

Abstract Introduction: Principles of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) protocols are
well established, with the primary goal of optimizing perioperative care and recovery. The …

Despite recent advances in perioperative patient care, postsurgical pain continues to be
undermanaged. There is increasing acceptance of the concept that effective postsurgical …

Background Color Doppler ultrasound (CDUS) has not been routinely used in plastic and
reconstructive surgery. Barriers to use have included large, cumbersome equipment, low …

Transverse abdominis plane (TAP) blocks, over the past decade, have emerged as a
reliable tool in multimodal analgesia. Although they block only the somatic component of …

Enhanced recovery after surgery is a multidisciplinary perioperative clinical pathway that
uses evidence-based interventions to improve the patient experience as well as increase …

Background Transverse abdominal plane block (TAP) is a new technique of regional block
described to reduce postoperative pain in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Recent …

It is an enormous honor to pen this Foreword to Essentials of Regional Anesthesia in light of
my following in the footsteps of the inimitable Professor P. Prithvi Raj, the author of the last …