Measuring skin to subarachnoid space depth in Egyptian population, A prospective cohort study.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- This study tries to measure the skin to subarachniod distance in Egyptian population generally and in individual male, females and pregnant females and find a differences between them
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000020413
- Lead Sponsor
- Mansoura Faculty of Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 400
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
Patients with neurological disorder, history of seizures, spinal anomaly, low back pain, prior back surgery, skin infection at puncture site, sepsis, drug allergies and coagulation defects will be excluded. Pregnant females with hypertensive disorder, less than term pregnancy or those scheduled for surgery other than caesarean delivery
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method to know the skin to subarachnoid distance in egyptian population and put a formula for its calculation by approach the subarachniod space in midline by a spinal needle and put a mark on that needle and measure a distance by a ruler and find a correlation between it and bodymass index
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method to find which formula is applicable in egyptian population