A study presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ 2011 annual meeting demonstrated that 30 kidney recipients given a transversus abdominal plane block experienced better relief than 30 recipients given intravenous, patient-controlled analgesia.
The patients were not given epidural anesthesia because of reduced or dysfunctional platelets. The team also only analyzed the first 48 postoperative hours because longer catheter use can prompt bacterial colonization.
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