Ultrasound Guided Intermediate Cervical Plexus Block in Thyroid Surgery

Assiut University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Pain

Treatments: Drug: Dexamethasone; Drug: local anesthetic

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03731468

UDLC

Details and patient eligibility

About

studying the effect of dexmeditomidine addition to bupivacaine in bilateral intermediate cervical block for patients undergoing thyroidectomy under general anaesthesia

Full description

80 patients who will be undergoing elective thyroidectomy will be randomly allocated into one of two groups ; group A will receive 20 mg isobaric bupivacaine + 8 mg dexamethasone(diluted in 5 ml) group B will receive 20 mg isobaric bupivacaine + 1 ml normal saline. block will be done under complete a septic condition after induction of general anaesthesia.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective surgery
• ASA 1, II, AND III

Exclusion criteria

• Patient refusal
• Infection at the entry site
• BMI > 3

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

dexmethasone group

Active Comparator group

Description:

8 mg dexamethasone will be added to local anaesthetics

Treatment:

Drug: Dexamethasone

control group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

isobaric bupivacaine will be given on each side

Treatment:

Drug: local anesthetic