The analgesic efficacy of ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block in adult patients: A meta-analysis

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1640-1654

  Baeriswyl, Moira ^a   Kirkham, Kyle R ^b   Kern, Christian ^a   Albrecht, Eric ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; DICLOFENAC; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; IBUPROFEN; KETOBEMIDONE; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; ROPIVACAINE; TRAMADOL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG USE; GASTRECTOMY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER RESECTION; META ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; PRURITUS; REST; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STOMACH BYPASS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND GUIDED TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; HUMANS; MORPHINE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84948710773     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000967     Document Type: Article

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