effect of addition of clonidine to bupivacaine in transversus abdoninis plane block on postoperative pain after lower segment cesarean sectio
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Healthy Parturients coming for LSCS under spinal anesthesia
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2013/10/004042
- Lead Sponsor
- ady Hardinge Medical College
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
100 healthy parturients (ASA physical status I and II) carrying a singleton fetus at term, scheduled to undergo elective LSCS under spinal anaesthesia, followed by a TAP block to relieve postoperative pain
Exclusion Criteria
Patients who refused spinal anaesthesia, had any contraindication to regional anaesthesia, had any major co-morbidity or if they were unable to communicate in either English or Hindi language were excluded from this study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome will be the duration of postoperative analgesia, defined as the time (in hours) from the giving of the bilateral TAP block with clonidine 1µgkg-1 with 0.25% bupivacaine 20 ml bilaterally or 0.25% bupivacaine 20ml alone to the time to first analgesic request in the postoperative period.Timepoint: time (in hours) from the giving of the bilateral TAP block with clonidine 1µgkg-1 with 0.25% bupivacaine 20 ml bilaterally or 0.25% bupivacaine 20ml alone to the time when patient first demands analgesia in the postoperative period.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method â?¢the total requirement of analgesics in the first 24hours postoperatively <br/ ><br>â?¢patients satisfaction and <br/ ><br>â?¢possible clonidine side effects (nausea and vomiting, sedation, dry mouth , hypotension & bradycardia)Timepoint: . after TAP block, observed every 30 minutes for the first 2 hours, then every hour for next 10 hours and thereafter every 2 hours till the patient demands first dose of analgesia.