it is Comparison of levobupivacaine and levobupivacaine with dexamethasone in ultrasound guided supraclavicular brachial plexuses block for postoperative analgesia in upper limb surgeries
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: 8- Other ProceduresHealth Condition 2: 8- Other Procedures
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/08/035903
- Lead Sponsor
- AISHWARYA PRASAD
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
All patients scheduled for elective upper limb surgeries
Patients of ASA physical status 1 and 2
Patients of either sex
Age > 18 years and < 60 years
BMI < 30 kg/m2
Pregnant women/Lactating women
Infection at the site of block
Patients having chronic pain and on analgesia medications or taking any anticoagulopathy Patients having history of brachial plexus injury, previous upper limb
or shoulder surgeries, deformity/congenital anomaly of upper limbs.
H/o allergy to local anesthetic drugs or drug abuse
Mental incapacity or language barrier precluding to informed consent
Patients who cannot lie down/non co-operative
Patients refusal for participation in study
Pre-existing motor or sensory deficit in the operative limb
Severe pulmonary pathology
Failed block â?? Converted to general anaesthesia
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method group getting levobupivacaine + dexamethasone is expected to have a longer postoperative analgesic periodTimepoint: post op 24 hours
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method to compare duration and onset of motor and sensory blockadeTimepoint: to calculate number of rescue analagesic