The Effect of Preemptive Regional Anesthesia (TAP-block) on Acute and Chronic Pain After Transabdominal Preperitoneal Inguinal Hernia Repair (TAPP)
NCT ID: NCT06406959
Last Updated: 2024-05-09
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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
NA
78 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2024-03-01
2025-03-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Nevertheless, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair can result in moderate to severe pain in the early postoperative period, interfering the time of returning to normal activity in a substantial quantity of patients. To reduce pain and to accelerate recovery, local and regional anesthetics has been successfully implemented into the daily routine of abdominal surgeries.
Recent systematic reviews have shown that TAP block can reduce analgetic consumption and acute pain scores after inguinal hernia repair. However, most included studies were conducted on patients with open hernia surgery or total extra peritoneal (TEP) inguinal hernia repair. Some studies showed the benefit of TAP block for early pain control following TAPP. Most of them were retrospective, some conducted with exclusion of obese or comorbid patients, some in mixed groups without separating patients with TAPP and TEP.
Thus, the evidence of TAP block efficiency prior to hernia repair in TAPP technique are of low quality.
Chronic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP) develops in up to 6% of patients after TAPP. Several studies have found that intense acute postoperative pain is a risk factor for CPIP after IHR. The investigators hypothesize, that preemptive TAP block temporary stops nociception and central sensitization from the surgical site thus reduce acute postoperative pain that theoretically provoke reducing the incidence of CPIP following IHR. Two studies suggest that TAP block may influence the incidence of CPIP after TAPP. Considering the retrospective study design of both and the insufficient sample size further randomized clinical trials are mandatory to estimate this hypothesis.
The aim of our study is to explore the possibilities of reducing acute and chronic pain after TAPP via implementation TAP block.
The sample size was calculated based on the randomized controlled trial data of patients after TEP IHR where postoperative VAS score at 4 h on coughing was 4.7±1.5 in the preemptive local anesthesia group and 6.1±1.9 in the control group. A sample size of 39 patients was required for each subgroup (total=78 patients) with a type I error rate α=0.05 and type II error rate β=0.1.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
DOUBLE
Study Groups
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TAP-block
TAPP inguinal hernia repair under general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation. Patients receive unilateral US-guided TAP-block with 20 ml 0,375% Levobupivacaine before incision
Transversus abdominal plane block (TAP block)
Unilateral US-guided TAP-block lateral approach with 20 ml 0,375% Levobupivacaine before incision
Standard care
TAPP inguinal hernia repair under general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation (without preemptive regional anesthesia) in accordance with actual standard of care.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Transversus abdominal plane block (TAP block)
Unilateral US-guided TAP-block lateral approach with 20 ml 0,375% Levobupivacaine before incision
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Signed Informed consent to participation
* ASA I-III
* BMI ≤35 kg/m2
* Inguinoscrotal hernia (hernia passing through the entrance to the scrotum)
* Previously diagnosed mental disorders
* Patients receiving psychotropic drugs and drugs affecting adrenal cortex function (estrogens and systemic glucocorticoids)
* Language barrier
Exclusion Criteria
* Refusal to participate
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Taras V. Nechay
MD, Professor
Locations
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Department of faculty surgery №1 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
Moscow, , Russia
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References
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Arora S, Chhabra A, Subramaniam R, Arora MK, Misra MC, Bansal VK. Transversus abdominis plane block for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: a randomized trial. J Clin Anesth. 2016 Sep;33:357-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2016.04.047. Epub 2016 May 28.
Chamzin A, Frountzas M, Gkiokas G, Kouskouni E, Xanthos T, Michalopoulos NV. The Effect of Intraoperative Transversus Abdominis Plane Blocking on Postoperative Pain After Laparoscopic Transabdominal Pre-peritoneal (TAPP) Groin Hernia Repair. Front Surg. 2022 Feb 8;9:834050. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2022.834050. eCollection 2022.
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Paasch C, Fiebelkorn J, De Santo G, Azarhoush S, Boettge K, Anders S, Gauger U, Strik M. The transversus abdominis plane block may reduce chronic postoperative pain one year after TAPP ingunial hernia repair. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2020 May 23;55:190-194. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2020.04.011. eCollection 2020 Jul.
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