The analgesic efficacy of dexamethasone added to levobupivacaine in ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block for abdominal hysterectomy or abdominal hysterectomy with salpingo-oophorectomy: A randomized controlled trial
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- adult patients undergoing elective abdominal hysterectomy or abdominal hysterectomy with salpingo-oophorectomy
- Registration Number
- TCTR20151003001
- Lead Sponsor
- Faculty of medicine of prince of songkhla university
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 99
Inclusion Criteria
- ASA I or II
- adult patients undergoing elective abdominal hysterectomy or abdominal hysterectomy with salpingo-oophorectomy
- Age > 18 years old
Exclusion Criteria
- Preexisting coagulation disorder
- Morbid obesity (BMI≥ 35)
- Body weight < 40 kg
- Local infection at the site of the block
- Allergy to levobupivacaine or dexamethasone
- Chronic pain
- Impair immune system or risk of infection
- Underlying disease: diabetes mellitus
- Previous abdominal surgery
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Time to first analgesia duration at completion of TAP block to first dose of post operative morphine duration at completion of TAP block to first dose of post operative morphine
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Postoperative pain At 1, 2, 4, 12, 24 and 48 hours postoperatively verbal numerical rating scale(VNRS)