Hala Kaptan and Nagwa Mohamed Doha
Post-operative pain management in pediatric patients is essential, development of safe and effective techniques is very important. (1)
Historically, pain management in children has been poor, but in the last decades many advances have been made. (2)
The transversus abdominis plane block (TAP block) have been tried successfully in adults for post-operative pain, its role in children remains unclear. (3)
TAP block was first described by Rafi in 2001(4). It is a compartmental block, it pr0vides analgesia to parietal peritoneum, skin and muscles of anterior abdominal wall(5) .
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