**9. Conclusion**

Fan-shaped LIA is a preventative procedure in managing acute postoperative pain which is based on the systematic, targeted infiltration of local anesthetics plus adrenaline to the operative area which in this case is the abdominal muscular wall. The fan-shaped LIA technique enables quick mobilization of patients and their early discharge.

Pain symptoms are considered an ideal parameter for assessing the quality of the fan-shaped LIA application, in postoperative patient care, not only in hospital environments but also in outpatient surgical practices. Pain management as part of medicine has undergone vast development in the last two decades. However, the treatment of pain still needs to be addressed adequately, which means establishing a specific series of protocols in order to prevent and not only treat pain. The statement, "better to prevent than treat" states a lot about this aspect.

The modern era has placed before us a great challenge, not only before physicians and other health care experts, but also the entire system of management in every country, in order to identify a better way of organizing work, and allocating work tasks on a daily basis, in order to eliminate obstacles that stand in the way to successful practices in pain management. The effectiveness of treating pain is closely linked to an awareness of consequences stemming from suffering caused by pain, including the psychology of pain, the effects of stressors from the immediate environment, cognitive perceptive abilities of persons, and life attitudes.

Administering long-lasting local anesthetics prior to and after a surgical procedure has a significant effect on reducing the intensity of postoperative pain due to surgical procedures involving VASER liposuction and abdominoplasty, which leads to discharging patients from the polyclinic on the same day as undergoing the surgical procedure, or at most within 48 h after the procedure.

Administering fan-shaped LIA intraoperatively into the abdominal wall provides early mobilization and quicker recovery of patients. The fact that patients feel less soreness within the first 48 h after the surgical procedure, their ability to actively mobilize earlier, and their satisfaction gives confirmation to use this method routinely.

*Fan-Shaped Application of Local Abdominal Wall Analgesia in Abdominoplasty Patients… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100235*
