to compare the painless duration after surgeries which are performed below navel when a nerve block is given with or without drug dexamethasone through a vein along with complete loss of consciousness
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: R69- Illness, unspecified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/07/026307
- Lead Sponsor
- ABVIMS and Dr RML Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
ASA grade 1 and 2
patients undergoing elective infra umbilical surgeries
duraion of surgery within 120 minutes
Exclusion Criteria
allergic to local anaesthetic drugs
coagulopathy and bleeding disorders
local site infection
preexisting neuromuscular disorders
congenital anomaly of lower back
mental retardation/delayed development
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Duration of post operative analgesia and time for first rescue analgesia.Timepoint: Baseline, and then every 15 minutes intraoperatively and hourly postoperatively,until FLACC score is greater than or equal to 4.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method total duration of post operative analgesia until rescue analgesia s given. <br/ ><br>Incidence of PONV <br/ ><br>parent satisfaction using Likert scale.Timepoint: first time when rescue analgesia is given. <br/ ><br>Any occasion of nausea or vomiting reported untilthe effect of caudal block is present