Conditions: Gynecologic Cancer Post-operative Pain
Keywords: Pain control Gynecologic Oncology Surgery
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 75
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study is a single-center, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of pre-operative transverses abdominis plane (TAP) blocks on post-operative analgesia in patients undergoing robotic surgery for gynecologic cancers.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: TAP block with bupivicaine/epinephrine placed prior to surgery. arm 2: TAP block with placebo placed prior to surgery

Interventions: intervention 1: Bupivicaine intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: The TAP block will be placed using a standardized ultrasound-guided approach. Subjects assigned to the study group will have an injection of 30 mL 0.25% bupivacaine, a local anesthetic with 3 mcg/mL of epinephrine, placed into the plane between the internal oblique and the transversus abdominis intervention 2: The placebo block will be placed in a similar manner, using a standardized ultrasound-guided approach. The placebo injection will consist of 30 mL sterile, preservative-free saline.

Protocol document: