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Opioid-free single-incision laparoscopic (SIL) cholecystectomy using bilateral TAP blocks
Kai Matthes1, Mark A Gromski, Benjamin E Schneider
1Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA. kai.matthes@childrens.harvard.edu
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
|December 3, 2011
Abstract:
A 30 year old woman who was 8 weeks postpartum with a history of cholelithiasis and gallstone pancreatitis, and who was status-post endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with sphincterotomy, was treated with a single-incision laparoscopic (SIL) cholecystectomy. A transversus abdominis plane block (TAP) was performed after induction of anesthesia. The patient required no intraoperative or postoperative opioids.