Open AccessComparison of postoperative analgesia and opioid requirement with thoracic epidural vs. continuous rectus sheath infusion in midline incision laparotomies under general anaesthesia – A prospective randomised controlled study
Author(s) -
Nandita Gupta,
Amit Kumar,
R Harish,
Deepak Jain,
Aditi Swami
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/ija.ija_976_19
Subject(s) - medicine , ropivacaine , rectus sheath , anesthesia , visual analogue scale , laparotomy , surgery , prospective cohort study , randomized controlled trial , mann–whitney u test , body mass index , opioid , abdominal wall , receptor , pathology
To assess and compare the effect of bilateral continuous rectus sheath infusion (CRSB) for postoperative analgesia with continuous thoracic epidural infusion (TEA) in patients undergoing midline incision laparotomies.