Effective Maneuver for Post-laparoscopic Shoulder Pain

In the control group, residual carbon dioxide gas was evacuated by the routine method using passive exsufflation through the port site at the end of surgery.

In the normal saline instillation group, in addition to the routine method, the patients were placed in the Trendelenburg position (30°), isotonic normal saline (20 ml/kg of body weight) was infused in the sub-diaphragmatic region at the end of surgery.

In the combined intervention group, in addition to the routine method, the patients were placed in the Trendelenburg position (30°), and a pulmonary recruitment maneuver was performed after instillation of isotonic normal saline (20 ml/kg of body weight) in the sub-diaphragmatic region at the end of surgery.