Efficacy Study of Rectus Sheath Block to Control Postoperative Pain (UGRSB)

Çukurova University

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Pain, Postoperative

Treatments

Procedure: ultrasound guided rectus sheath block

Drug: Morphine

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02115087

UGRSB-123

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the ultrasound guided rectus sheath block (RSB) on both intraoperative sevoflurane consumption and postoperative analgesia.

Full description

Prospective, randomized study.Forty patients with American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) I-II physical status, aged 3-15 years.Patients are randomly allocated into two groups and are administered general anesthesia and before the beginning of surgery ultrasound guided RSB with 0.2 ml.kg-1, 0.25% of levobupivacaine and thirty minutes before the surgery the loading dose of morphine of 0.1 mg.kg-1 intravenously are received in group RSB and group M, respectively. Patient controlled analgesia (PCA) device with 0.01 mg.kg-1 bolus dose of morphine and 30 minutes lockout interval is set up postoperatively in both groups.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

3 to 15 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

ASA physical status I-II
3-15 years of age children
Abdominal surgery including liver, gall bladder, spleen, small intestine, cecum, colon, rectum, intra-abdominal masses, umbilical, paraumbilical, and inguinal hernia with transverse incision

Exclusion criteria

ASA physical status III and above
Parents who did not consider to participate in the study
Having systemic (septicemia, bacteremia) or local infection, bleeding and shock, predisposition for bleeding and anticoagulant therapy given, central nervous system disease, allergy to local anesthetics, severe respiratory, hepatic, and renal failure