The Effect of Combined Ultrasound-Guided Transverse Thoracic Muscle Plane Block and Rectus Sheath Plane Block on the Peri-operative Consumption of Opioids in Open Heart Surgeries with Median Sternotomy
- Conditions
- Anaesthesia
- Registration Number
- PACTR202203859764512
- Lead Sponsor
- Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
1. Patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score III – IV.
2. Patients from both sexes.
3. Patients aged = 18 years old.
4. Patients scheduled for certain cardiac surgery with median sternotomy including valve(s) replacement/repair, surgical repair for ascending aorta, closure of congenital Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery using a NON Internal Thoracic Arterial graft.
1. Patients refusing to be involved in this study.
2. Patients with ASA score > IV.
3. Patients aged < 18 years.
4. Patients scheduled for an expected CABG surgery using the Internal Thoracic Artery.
5. Patients scheduled for pericardial effusion drainage, surgical debridement or re-wiring the sternal bone.
6. Patients scheduled for urgent cardiac surgery.
7. Patients with local infection at the site of needle puncture.
8. Patients with known hypersensitivity to local anesthetic (LA).
9. Patients with possible development of LA toxicity (i.e. decompensated hepatic patients).
10. Patients hardly to be candidates for Fast Tract Extubation in ICU such as:
- Patients on high doses of inotropes and/or vasopressors.
- Patients with high drain(s) in the first 6 hours post-operatively.
- Patients who needed an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) post- CardioPulmonary Bypass (CPB).
- Patients who needed a cardiac temporary pacing.
- Patients with delayed recovery (= 6 hours post-operative) in the ICU due to hypotension, stroke, brain edema, hypothermia, acidosis... etc.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
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