Role of abdominal block for postoperative pain relief after total abdominal hysterectomy.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Postoperative pain
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/01/011163
- Lead Sponsor
- Tata Motors Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
All patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy under combined spinal epidural anaesthesia after obtaining informed consent.
ASA grade I-III.
Total abdominal hysterectomy performed via lower abdominal transverse (Pfannenstiel) incision.
Exclusion Criteria
Patient refusal.
A history of drug allergy or local anaesthetic toxicity.
BMI >35kg/m2 (to limit maximum Ropivacaine dose to 3mg/kg)
Contraindications to regional anaesthesia (bleeding diathesis, infection at the site of block and peripheral neuropathy)
Change of anaesthetic technique to general anaesthesia.
Failure or complication in epidural catheter insertion.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Duration of analgesiaTimepoint: 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,18 and 24 hr.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Epidural morphine consumption. <br/ ><br>Severity of pain. <br/ ><br>Incidence / severity of nausea-vomiting, pruritus, sedation and respiratory depression. <br/ ><br>Complications of TAP block. <br/ ><br>Adverse effects of local anaesthetics. <br/ ><br>Patient satisfaction. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,18 and 24 hr.