To assess the prolongation of pain relief in children after single dose of intravenous dexmetomidine with the block given in the lowest portion of spine
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- patients undergoing urethroplasty.
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/05/013920
- Lead Sponsor
- AIIMS
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Closed to Recruitment of Participants
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
ASA I-II
Age 2- 8 yrs
Undergoing urethroplasty
Exclusion Criteria
Parental or guardian refusal
Hypersensitivity to any local anaesthetic
Bleeding diathesis
Infection at puncture site
Children with uncorrected heart disease
Children with heart block or liver impairment
Preexisting neurological diseases
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To assess the effect of intravenous dexmedetomidine on caudal analgesia , to compare the time to rescue analgesia.Timepoint: The duration of analgesia is from the time of caudal injection to the time of FLACC score 4.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare the incidence of emergence agitation <br/ ><br>To compare the time for discharge based on modified aldrete score. <br/ ><br>To compare the postoperative sedation. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: Sedation score will be assessed using Modified Ramsayâ??s sedation score <br/ ><br>Time taken to achieve Aldrete score of 9 will be noted.