ArticleCureus2023
Locoregional Anaesthesia for Laparotomy: A Literature Review and Subsequent Case Series Highlighting the Potential of an Alternative Anaesthetic Technique.
Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.
- Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery Under General Versus Neuraxial Anesthesia: A Retrospective Propensity-Score-Matched Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Thoracic combined spinal epidural anaesthesia for exploratory laparoscopy and laparotomy (sigmoidectomy, colostomy): The first case in Palestine for the ASA5 patient.SAGE open medical case reports · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Laparotomy is a surgical incision utilised in both emergency and elective scenarios to gain access to abdominal surgery. General anaesthesia is usually necessitated due to the substantial insult of the approach and to facilitate organ relaxation and paralysis. However, this brings with it the need for an assessment of the suitability of the anaesthetic technique, with a large number of patients having comorbidities significant enough to exclude them from surgery. Locoregional anaesthesia, provided via spinal, epidural, or a combined approach offers a means of providing anaesthesia that places a reduced level of strain on patients' cardiorespiratory function. We review the existing literature on the topic of so-called "awake laparotomy" performed with locoregional anaesthesia and present a case series including both elective and emergency procedures.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.