[This retracts the article DOI: 10.7759/cureus.21311.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Various modalities are now being used to manage postoperative pain, such as regional nerve blocks techniques, continuous epidural analgesia, patient-controlled analgesia, opioids, and systemic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. This study compared the mean postoperative pain score between ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block and a local anesthetic wound infiltration at the surgical incision site.
Methodology: A prospective, comparative, randomized controlled trial (RCT) was carried out from February 2021 to September 2021.