Bloqueio ecoguiado do plano tranverso do abdômen (TAP Block) associado à infusão contínua de remifentanil para herniorrafia diafragmática em felino: relato de caso

Abstract

The mandatory supervised internship, a mandatory discipline in the final semester of the Veterinary Medicine course at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (URPE), has a total workload of 420 hours and can be characterized as a professional qualification activity for the last semester student of the course, applying its acquired knowledge and capacitating it for the professional practice. This work aims to describe the ESO carried out between october and december 2023 at the Veterinary Hospital of the Veterinary Medicine Department of UFRPE (HVU/DMV/UFRPE) and to report a case of ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block (TAP Block) using ropivacaine 0,5% (0,2 ml/kg/site) associated with remifentanil continuous infusion to promote analgesia in a domestic cat during an diaphragmatic herniorrhaphy. During the procedure, no signs of pain were noted, but after the procedure, analgesic rescue was needed associating morphine at 0,2 mg/kg with tramadol at 3 mg/kg. It is concluded that the association of TAP Block and the continuous infusion of remifentanil is an efficient alternative to promote multimodal analgesia during transoperative period in the feline species during diaphragmatic herniorrhaphy.