Study limitations
postoperative pain, pain
The surgeon carrying out the procedure could not be fully blinded in practice. However, this problem was attempted to be solved by standardizing postoperative pain management; blinding the team (anesthesia team and clinic nurses) implementing the pain management, assessments, and recordings of the patient group; providing these data to the data collectors after the discharge of the patient; and evaluating all data at the end of this study. Second, the study included only patients with ASA scores of 1 and 2, while those with ASA scores of 3 and 4 were excluded as they used several different drugs and the technique could pose difficulties in evaluating VAS scores. Nevertheless, this group of patients may be the subject of another study.In conclusion, the results of this study suggest that bilateral 4-quadrant LTAP block is an easy-to-carry out and practical technique for reducing pain in the first hour after LC. Our study has the following most important result: the TAP block should be applied to the 4 quadrants to have a sufficient effect in preventing post-LC pain. The efficacy of the block on pain in later hours and rescue analgesic use should be investigated using different surgical methods. New studies comparing different block methods will provide more detailed information in determining the block method that is more effective and applicable.