Pain relief technique cuts hospital stay by one-third for some surgical patients

Surgeons are working to reduce serious complications that have been known to occur with colorectal operations. In addition to using a set of pre- and postoperative standards that speed recovery which they have been publishing on for more than a decade, the researchers have validated yet another step surgeons can take to further reduce patients’ hospital stays: adding a procedure called the transversus abdominis plane block to patients’ surgical care.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/aco…