Sphenopalatine Block Versus Greater Occipital Nerve Block in PDPH

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Recruiting

• Conditions: Post-Dural Puncture Headache
• Interventions: Procedure: bilateral sphenopalatine ganglion block; Procedure: bilateral greater occipital nerve block; Drug: lidocaine plus dexamethasone

• Registration Number: NCT05235256
• Lead Sponsor: Ain Shams University

Brief Summary

Management of postdural puncture headache (PDPH) has always been challenging for anesthesiologists. PDPH not only increases the misery of the patient, but the length of stay and overall cost of treatment in the hospital also increases. Although the epidural blood patch ( EBP ) is an effective way of treating the problem, the procedure itself could cause another inadvertent dural puncture (DP). Moreover, sometimes patients need to have a second EBP, if the first one is not completely effective. This can be difficult to explain to the patient who has already suffered a lot. Peripheral nerve blocks are well tolerated and effective as adjunctive therapy for many disabling headache disorder.

Sphenopalatine ganglion is a parasympathetic ganglion, located in the pterygopalatine fossa. Transnasal sphenopalatine ganglion block ( SPGB ) has been successfully used to treat chronic conditions such as migraine, cluster headache, and trigeminal neuralgia, and may be a safer alternative to treat PDPH: It is minimally invasive and carried out at the bedside without using imaging. Besides that, it has apparently a faster start than EBP, with better safety profile.

Another minimally invasive peripheral nerve block which has been used quite successful is greater occipital nerve block (GONB). The GONB has been in use for more than a decade to treat complex headache syndromes of varying etiologies like migraine , cluster headache and chronic daily headache with encouraging results. Greater Occipital Nerve (GON) arises from C2-3 segments, its most proximal part lies between obliqua capitis inferior and semispinalis, near the spinous process. Then, GON enters into semispinalis passing through it and after its exit; it enters into trapezius muscle. In distal region of trapezius fascia, it is crossed by the occipital artery and finally the nerve exits the trapezius fascia insertion into the nuchal line about 5-cm lateral to midline. Functionally, GON supplies major rectus capitis posterior muscle, and the skin, muscles, and vessels of the scalp, but is the main sensory supply of occipital region.

Many providers believe that the local anesthetic produces the rapid onset of headache relief, like an abortive agent, and that the locally acting steroid produces the preventive like action of up to 6 weeks as dexamethasone possess potent anti inflammatory and immunosuppressive actions by inhibiting cytokine-mediated pathways .

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-11-16
• Study Start: 2022-01-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-02-09
• Study First Posted: 2022-02-11
• Status Verified: 2022-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-11-11
• Last Update Posted: 2022-11-14
• Primary Completion: 2022-11-15
• Study Completion: 2022-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

• Obstetric patients ( American Society of Anesthesiologists ) ASA I&II ,body weight between 60-100kg expressing PDPH after spinal anesthesia, (VAS > 4 ) with standard treatment such as intravenous fluids, abdominal binder, bed rest and caffeine.

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Exclusion Criteria

• • ASA III& IV patients.

  • Refusal of the patient.
  • Patients with chronic headache or migraine.
  • Hypertensive patients.
  • A patient that cannot comply with the VAS.
  • Infection at site of the block
  • Known coagulation defect.
  • Nasal septal deviation, polyp, history of nasal bleeding.
  • Allergy to local anaesthetics.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
SPGB Group	bilateral sphenopalatine ganglion block	patients will receive bilateral sphenopalatine ganglion block using 3ml mixture of 2ml 2% lidocaine plus 1ml dexamethasone 4mg (on each nostril).
GONB Group	lidocaine plus dexamethasone	patients will receive bilateral greater occipital nerve block using a mixture of 3ml of 2ml 2% lidocaine plus 1ml dexamethasone 4mg (on each side of the occipital region).
SPGB Group	lidocaine plus dexamethasone	patients will receive bilateral sphenopalatine ganglion block using 3ml mixture of 2ml 2% lidocaine plus 1ml dexamethasone 4mg (on each nostril).
GONB Group	bilateral greater occipital nerve block	patients will receive bilateral greater occipital nerve block using a mixture of 3ml of 2ml 2% lidocaine plus 1ml dexamethasone 4mg (on each side of the occipital region).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Visual Analogue Score (VAS )	first 24 hours after the procedure	Visual A nalogue Scale will be used to asses the efficacy of either SPGB or GONB for treatment of PDPH .Score from 0 to 100 (0=no pain, 100=most severe pain)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
total analgesic consumption	first 24 hours after the block	total dose of ketorolac will be calculated

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ain Shams University Hospital; 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt