Transplant Surgery Clinical Trial
Good postoperative pain control after any major surgery allows early mobilization, minimises
postoperative complications and reduces patient distress. Multiple different methods of
delivering analgesia have been described.
This study aims to compare postoperative pain control between patients with epidural
analgesia versus the combination of continuous infiltration of local anaesthetic with wound
catheters, TAP block and IV PCA with opiate analgesia following open liver resection. The
investigators expect that pain control will be similar between the two groups but that the
utilization of wound catheters will confer benefit due to the lack of systemic side effects
associated with epidural analgesia
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