Association of Preoperative Plateletcrit and Other Inflammatory Indices with Postoperative Pain Severity and Opioid Consumption in Morbidly Obese Patients Receiving Transversus Abdominis Plane Block: A Retrospective Observational Study
Background: Bariatric surgery induces a systemic inflammatory response to surgical stress that may influence postoperative pain and analgesic requirements, and CBC-derived inflammatory indices can reflect preoperative and postoperative immunometabolic dynamics related to this response. This retrospective observational...