Effect of Dexamethasone on pain relief after cesarean sectio
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O00-O9A- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2023/03/050863
- Lead Sponsor
- Shree Krishna hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1.Patients undergoing lower Segment caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia.
2.All patients with fasting period of 6 hours to solids and 2 hours to liquids
3.American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status grade II
1.High risk pregnancy â?? Eclampsia, Preeclampsia, Abruption placenta, Placenta Previa, Cord prolapse, Pregnancy with medical disordered (Diabetes mellitus, Cardiac disease, Thyroid disease)
2.Multiple gestations
3.Caesarean with fetal distress
4.Absolute contraindication to spinal anaesthesia
5.Patients on steroid therapy or past history of medication with steroids in last 1 year
6.Diabetic patient with HbA1c of more than 8
7.Obese patient with BMI > 40
8.Intraoperative blood loss of more than 20%
9.Pre-operative hemoglobin level less than 8 mg/dl
10.Patients with Raised CRP and total leucocyte counts
11.Allergy to local anaesthetic drug
12.Severe spinal deformity
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ï?¶To evaluate post-operative analgesic efficacy of two doses of intravenous dexamethasone i.e. 4mg and 8mg at 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16 and 24 hours by using numeric rating scale(NRS)Timepoint: After completion of Spinal anaesthesia till 24 hours
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Duration of analgesia. <br/ ><br>2.Incidence of nausea, vomiting intraoperative and post-operative <br/ ><br>3.Incidence of shivering intraoperative and post-operative <br/ ><br>Timepoint: post-operative till 24 hours.