Laparoscopic-guided psoas blockade as a novel analgesic method during inguinal herniorrhaphy: a clinical trial
Bibliographic Information Authors: Tammam T.F.; Salama A.F. Journal: Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica Publisher: Blackwell Munksgaard Publication Date: 30 November 2016 Volume / Issue: Volume 61 / Issue 2 Pages: 232–240 ISSN: 15172 DOI: 10.1111/aas.12842 Scopus: View on Scopus PubMed: 27900771 Document Type: Article Authors and Affiliations Tammam T.F., Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University Hospital, Portsaid, Egypt; Salama A.F., Department of General and Digestive Surgery, TBRI (Theodor Bilharz Research Institute), Cairo, Egypt Abstract Background: Under laparoscopic guidance, block of ilioinguinal, iliohypogastric, and genitofemoral nerves can be possible with anesthetic injection in the plane between psoas major and the fasciae covering its anterior aspects [laparoscopic-assisted psoas (LAP) blockade]. This observer-blinded trial aimed to compare the opioid-sparing effect of LAP block with transversus...