title: Opioid-free single-incision laparoscopic (SIL) cholecystectomy using bilateral TAP blocks.
abstract: A 30 year old woman who was 8 weeks postpartum with a history of cholelithiasis and gallstone pancreatitis, and who was status-post endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with sphincterotomy, was treated with a single-incision laparoscopic (SIL) cholecystectomy. A transversus abdominis plane block (TAP) was performed after induction of anesthesia. The patient required no intraoperative or postoperative opioids.
authors: Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA. kai.matthes@childrens.harvard.edu
authors: Kai
authors: K
authors: Matthes
authors: Mark A
authors: MA
authors: Gromski
authors: Benjamin E
authors: BE
authors: Schneider
authors: Joan E
authors: JE
authors: Spiegel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction / Q000379:methods; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde / Q000379:methods; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000379:methods*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D042882:Gallstones / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D009407:Nerve Block / Q000379:methods*; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D016717:Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic / Q000379:methods