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304 Original article Tramadol as an adjuvant to levobupivacaine in an ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block in women undergoing abdominal hysterectomy Reem El-Kabariety Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Objective Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt The aim of the current trial was to assess the value of adding tramadol to Correspondence to Reem El-Kabariety, MD, levobupivacaine in an ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block in Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, women undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy. Ain Shams University, 11759 Cairo, Egypt Tel: + 202 24025982/ + 2012223471902; Methods fax: + 202 24025982; The current study was a double-blind randomized-controlled trial on 66 patients e-mail: rhkabarity@yahoo.co.uk scheduled for abdominal hysterectomy. Patients were divided into three equal groups, Received 15 March 2013 where general anesthesia was given, followed by an ultrasound-guided insertion of the Accepted 7 April 2013 needle to perform a bilateral TAP block. The women recruited were randomized as Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology follows: group I, which included women who received a TAP block using 20 ml 2013, 6:304–311 0.5% levobupivacaine with 2 ml saline 0.9%, group II, which included women who received a TAP block using 2 ml (100 mg) tramadol in addition to using 20 ml
Ain-Shams Journal of Anaesthesiology – Wolters Kluwer Health
Published: Sep 1, 2013
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