To compare two methods of pain relief after the surgery in childre
Phase 1
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/08/015288
- Lead Sponsor
- Bangalore Baptist Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
•Age between 1 to 10 years
•weight of child less than 30kg
•American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grade I and II patients
•Children posted for infraumbilical surgeries less than 2 hour duration (herniotomy, urethroplasty,circumcision, orchidopexy, lower limb orthopaedic surgeries etc)
Exclusion Criteria
1.Children posted for emergency surgery
2.Infection at the site of injection
3.Coagulopathy or on anticoagulation therapy
4.Congenital anomaly of lower spine and meninges
5.Active disease of the CNS
6.History of allergy to local anaesthetics, Clonidine and Dexamethasone
7.Surgeries in prone position
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare the efficacy of ropivacaine with clonidine or dexamethasone as adjuvants for caudal epidural block in paediatric infraumbilical surgeries.Timepoint: To evaluate duration of analgesia (defined as time from caudal injection until the first requirement of rescue analgesia, pain assessed by FLACC). <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.To assess haemodynamic stability between the two groups. <br/ ><br>2.To assess incidence of any side effects like nausea and vomiting, sedation, bradycardia, hypotension, wound infection <br/ ><br>Timepoint: up to 12 hours postoperatively