Audit of transverse abdominus plane block for analgesia following caesarean section

Extending epidural analgesia for emergency Caesarean section.

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Postoperative Analgesia Following Caesarean Section: Intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesia Versus Conventional Continuous Infusion

Background: Management of postoperative pain after caesarean section (CS) requires a balance between pain relief and undesirable side effects of drugs and technique. In order to improve postoperative pain management after caesarean section, we compared intravenous patient controlled analgesia (IV-PCA) with our current hospital practice, which is continuous opioid infusion. Method: We enrolled o...

The National Sentinel Caesarean Section Audit.

Ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block for analgesia after Caesarean delivery.

BACKGROUND The landmark-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is an effective method of providing postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing lower abdominal surgery. We evaluated the analgesic efficacy of the ultrasound (US)-guided TAP block in patients undergoing Caesarean delivery. METHODS A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was performed at a tertiary maternit...

Efficacy of augmentation of epidural analgesia for Caesarean section.

BACKGROUND Extension of a labour epidural for Caesarean delivery is thought to be successful in most cases and avoids the use of general anaesthesia. However, most previous studies that have estimated the failure rate of pre-existing epidural catheters were performed in small numbers of patients. METHODS Therefore, we undertook to retrospectively measure the failure rate of indwelling epidura...