Lidocaine Gel 2% and Muscle Traction Pain During Squint Surgery in Pediatrics

Research Institute of Ophthalmology, Egypt

Status: Completed

Conditions: Squint

Treatments: Drug: lidocaine gel 2%; Other: control group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04859062

23334

Details and patient eligibility

About

Assessing the efficacy of lidocaine gel 2% application 10 minutes before surgery on post operative pain and the use of analgesics postoperatively

Full description

After inhalational induction of anesthesia and applying the pulse oximeter to the patient's finger but and before cannulating or managing the patient's airway lidocaine gel 2% is efficiently applied to the surgical eye (to give more time for the gel to act without delaying the surgery) then cannulation and laryngeal mask inserted to maintain ventilation properly.

Applying lidocaine gel 2% should be filling the upper and lower 10 minute fornices before disinfecting the eye and starting the surgery

The primary outcome is assessing postoperative pain and need for postoperative systemic analgesia The secondary outcome is to monitor the oculocardiac reflex intraoperatively and the need for intraoperative atropine.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 3 to 12 years
• squint surgery

Exclusion criteria

• below 2 years or more than 13

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

no lidocaine gel 2% is applied

Treatment:

Other: control group

lidocaine group

Experimental group

Description:

the lidocaine gel 2% is applied to the operative eye preoperatively

Treatment:

Drug: lidocaine gel 2%