Abstract

Total abdominal hysterectomy is the most commonly performed gynecological surgery. Patient normally suffers from significant pain after abdominal surgery. Transversus abdominis plane block is a regional anaesthetic technique used to provide analgesia to the anterior and lateral abdominal wall. Ropivacaine is a long acting amide local anaesthetic drug while Dexamethasone as an adjuvant has anti-inflammatory and blocking effects on neural discharge and nociceptor c -fibre transmission. Hence an attempt was made to study the effect of Dexamethasone as an adjuvant to Ropivacaine in ultrasound guided transversus abdominis plane block for total abdominal hysterectomy

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