Background and objective: Circumcision is one of the most common
operations and can cause postoperative pain, fear, and anxiety for children. This
study aims to compare the effects of transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block and
caudal epidural (CE) anesthesia on postoperative analgesia after circumcision in
providing postoperative pain control.
Methods: Eighty boys aged 1 to 14 years who underwent elective
circumcision surgery under general anesthesia either with USG-guided TAP block or
with CE block for postoperative analgesia were enrolled consecutively to this
prospective observational study equally in each group. Postoperative pain scores
and need for rescue analgesia were recorded and compared between the two groups.
Results: There was no statistically significant difference between the
groups in mean age and Aldrete scores (p
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Circumcision in children: postoperative analgesic efficiency of transversus abdominis plan block vs caudal epidural block: a prospective observational study
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Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Prof. Dr. Cemil Tascıoglu City Hospital, 34384 İstanbul, Turkey
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Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Sultan Abdulhamidhan Training and Research Hospital, 34668 İstanbul, Turkey
*Correspondence: barguv@gmail.com (Bülent Barış GÜVEN)
J. Mens. Health 2022, 18(1), 12;
https://doi.org/10.31083/jomh.2021.096
Submitted: 7 July 2021 | Accepted: 29 July 2021 | Published: 18 January 2022
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract
Keywords
Circumcision
Caudal epidural block
Transversus abdominis plane block
Postoperative pain