Conditions: Pain Obesity Surgery
Keywords: TAP Block Pain Obesity Surgery Laparoscopic Banding
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 19
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The use of preoperative TAP block in laparoscopic bariatric surgery can improve the postoperative pain and quality of recovery in patients undergoing these procedures.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: (control group) will receive sterile normal saline in the block arm 2: (study group) will receive a bilateral TAP block using 20 cc of 0.5% ropivacaine on each side.

Interventions: intervention 1: Placebo intervention 2: (study group) will receive a bilateral TAP block using 20 cc of 0.5% ropivacaine on each side.
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Bilateral TAP block using sterile normal saline. intervention 2: (study group) will receive a bilateral TAP block using 20 cc of 0.5% ropivacaine on each side.

Protocol document: