Clinical Trial: Two Bupivacaine Concentrations for Rectus Intercostal Fascial Plane Block After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

U.S., Sept. 26 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07841951) titled 'Two Bupivacaine Concentrations for Rectus Intercostal Fascial Plane Block After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy' on Sept. 20.

Brief Summary: Pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy remains a clinically relevant problem despite the minimally invasive nature of the procedure, and current recommendations favour multimodal, opioid-sparing analgesia including regional techniques. The rectus intercostal fascial plane block (RIFPB) is a recently described interfascial technique in which local anesthetic is injected into the plane between the rectus abdominis muscle and the 6th and 7th costal cartilages, targeting the anterior and lateral cut...