The effect of dexmedetomidine addition to levobupivacaine-epinephrine in ultrasound guided bilateral superficial cervical plexus bock on post oprative analgesia in patients undergoing thyroid surgery under general anaesthesia.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and SurgicalHealth Condition 2: E078- Other specified disorders of thyroid
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2023/11/059843
- Lead Sponsor
- MANAS OMER
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Patient giving written informed consent will be taken who are scheduled for elecive thyroid surgery includng goiters, tumours and cyst with euthyroid confirmed with thyroid function tests(TSH, free triidothroxine, thyroxine)
Aged 20-65 years and ASA physiological status I and II undergoing general anaesthesia.
1. Refusal of patient.
2. those patients in whom endotracheal tube was retained after surgery.
3. those who could not comprehend numerical pain score.
4. patients having concomitant disease interfering with post operative assessment, pre existing peripheral nerve neuropathies, substernal goiter, probable cervical lymph node dissection.
5. patient on adrenoreceptor agonist or antagoinst treatment.
6. patients having allergic reactions to levobupivacaine, epinephrine or dexmedetomedine.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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