Comparison of techniques for pain relief in patients with pain due to herpes zoster
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/12/029508
- Lead Sponsor
- Indira gandhi medical college
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
patients of either gender
age group 18-60 years
weight between 40-80 kg
Herpetic neuralgia of 14days to 3months duration
Patients should have had atleast 14 days of trial of conventional medical therapy
VAS scores of the patient >6 at anytime in 24 hours for justification of intervention
Patients with thoracic or lumbar herpes zoster
Exclusion Criteria
Those refusing to participate in study
Severe cardiac or respiratory diseases
Allergic to test drug or local anaesthetics Severe hepatic impairment
Bleeding disorders (Bleeding time, Clotting time will be undertaken)
Patients on therapeutic anti coagulants
Local site infection
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare the efficacy of epidural vs paravertebral block in providing analgesia in herpetic neuralgia patients using VAS scoresTimepoint: patients will be followed up on alternate days for VAS score, Quality of life scale and satisfaction score for 10 days either clinically or telephonically.( Day 3,5,7 & 10)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare the patient satisfaction score in both the groups using likert scale <br/ ><br>To compare the quality of life scale in both the groups using American chronic pain association scales <br/ ><br> To study the side effect profile of both the blocks in these patientsTimepoint: patients will be followed up on alternate days for VAS score, Quality of life scale and satisfaction score for 10 days either clinically or telephonically.( Day 3,5,7 & 10)In all the scales an average score in last 24hrs will be recorded.