Duration of Postop Analgesia After Inguinal Hernia Surgery Treated with TAP Block Vs II/IH Nerve Block

Pakistan Navy Station Shifa Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Postoperative Analgesia

Treatments: Drug: Ilioinguinal/iliohypogastric Nerve Block with 0.25 % bupivacaine; Drug: Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block with 0.25 % bupivacaine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06812741

530/ 2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparing Postop Analgesia after Inguinal Hernia Surgery treated with TAP Block Vs Ilioinguinal/ Iliohypogastric Nerve Block

Full description

Comparison of Mean Duration of Postoperative Analgesia in Patients undergoing Inguinal Hernia Surgery treated with Transversus Abdominal Plane Block Versus Ilioinguinal/ Iliohypogastric Nerve Block

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients giving written informed consent
• Patients undergoing Inguinal Hernia surgery
• patients with ages 18-60 years
• ASA 1 and 2 patients

Exclusion criteria

• INR > 1.0 (patients with bleeding tendency)
• EF < 45 % (patients with cardiac dysfunction)
• FEV1 < 80 % of normal (patients with pulmonary dysfunction)
• patients with renal disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Inguinal Hernia Surgery (Group T)

Experimental group

Description:

Half of the study participants named Group T were administered Ultrasound Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Nerve Block and the other half named Group I were administered Ilioinguinal \& Iliohypogastric Nerve Block before the Inguinal Hernia Surgery.

Treatment:

Drug: Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block with 0.25 % bupivacaine

Inguinal Hernia Surgery (Group I)

Experimental group

Description:

Half of the study participants named Group T were administered Ultrasound Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Nerve Block and the other half named Group I were administered Ilioinguinal \& Iliohypogastric Nerve Block before the Inguinal Hernia Surgery.

Treatment:

Drug: Ilioinguinal/iliohypogastric Nerve Block with 0.25 % bupivacaine