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TAP blocks increased anaesthesia time by 14 min on average but offered no clinically important benefit over local anaesthetic port-site infiltration to paediatric patients undergoing laparoscopic appendicectomy.

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We describe a technique for using a portable ultrasound scanner (38 mm broadband (10-5 MHz) linear array transducer (Sonosite Titan® SonoSite, Inc. 21919 30th Drive SE Bothell, W.A.)) to guide dorsal penile nerve block in children under general anaesthesia. Real-time scanning is used to guide bilateral injections into the subpubic space, deep to Scarpa's fascia either side of the midline fundiform ligament. Scanning can confirm that the local anaesthetic has spread to contact the deep fascia on each side. A subcutaneous wheal of local anaesthetic along the penoscrotal junction completes the block.