Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Erector Spinae Plane Block compared to Quadratus Lumborum Block for Postoperative Analgesia in Inguinal Hernia repair operations

Document Type : Original Research Papers

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Anesthesia, Surgical intensive care, and Pain Management Department, Faculty of Medicine-Benha University

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Background: More The correction of inguinal hernias is a technique that is performed on more than 20 million individuals annually and is a very common surgery all over the globe. In the study, a comparison was made between the Quadratus Lumborum Block and the Lumbar Erector Spinae Plane Block for Inguinal Hernia Repair Operations. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the consumption of morphine over a period of twenty-four hours and to determine the occurrence of postoperative issues such as the formation of hematomas and the toxicity of local anesthetics. A number of approaches: This prospective randomized clinical research included sixty persons who were scheduled to have surgery to treat an inguinal hernia. The participants were required to undergo surgery. Patients were divided into two groups that were identical to one another. Every single patient in the L-ESP group, which consisted of thirty individuals, was given a unilateral L-ESP block. In the QLB group, which consisted of thirty patients, a unilateral QLB block was successfully performed. According to the findings, the L-ESP group used considerably smaller quantities of morphine and ketorolac in the first twenty-four hours after surgery in compared to the QLB group (P values = 0.010 and 0.002, respectively). When it came to success rate, patient satisfaction, postoperative nausea and vomiting, hypotension, and bradycardia, the two groups exhibited findings that were quite comparable among themselves. In conclusion.

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