comparison between dexamethasone and dexmedetomidine as an adjunct to ropivacaine in post operative shoulder surgery
Phase 4
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- healthy patients with ASA grade 1-2
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2015/08/006124
- Lead Sponsor
- Government Medical College and Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
1. ASA status 1-2
2. BMI - 18-30 kg/m2
3. Shoulder surgery such as rotator cuff repair, recurrent shoulder dislocations, acromioplasty, hemiarthroplasty and total shoulder replacement.
Exclusion Criteria
1. patient refusing to give informed consent
2. history of relevant drug allergy
3. history of psychiatric illness, substance abuse
4. severe cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic or neurologic disease
5. pregnancy and lactation
6. coagulopathy
7. contralateral phrenic nerve dysfunction
8. infection at planned injection site
9.patients receiving alpha 2 agonists for hypertensive disorders
10.patients on steroids
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method duration of post-operative analgesia as measured ( in minutes ) by the time from the achievement of adequate sensory block till the first use of fentanyl bolus by PCATimepoint: o hour- time at which adequate sensory block is achieved <br/ ><br>To time till the patient takes first dose of rescue analgesic( in 24 hours )
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method pain ratings over 24 hours on 0-100 VAS , total post-operative analgesic consumption, patient satisfaction and adverse effects.Timepoint: 2 hourly monitoring after 4 hours of nerve block upto 24 hours .