Bloqueio do plano tranverso do abdômen guiado por ultrassom: breve revisão.

Abstract

Adjunct to the evolution of veterinary medicine, anesthesiology has been growing with the emergence of new research and discoveries. Currently, protocols used in anesthesia now have different drugs, analgesic techniques and equipment, capable of promoting better quality and safety for patients undergoing surgery. Transversus abdominis plane block (TAP) is an abdominal wall block that has rapidly spread in clinical practice as part of multimodal analgesia in abdominal surgeries, enshrined in human medicine and adapted to veterinary routine, emerged as a new modality of locoregional anesthesia. The local anesthetic is applied within the interneurofascial plane, promoting analgesia of the muscle, peritoneum and ventral abdominal wall of animals. For the correct performance of the technique it is necessary that the block is ultrasound guided, which allows the visualization of the structures and better precision of the place to be blocked. Its use may result in a reduction in the need for opioids. However, it should be used as part of complementary analgesia to balance pain in order to provide better patient comfort.