Our experience in the usage of thoracic epidural analgesia in patients donating the liver for transplant purpose
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- patient undergoing donor hepatectomy
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2016/09/007247
- Lead Sponsor
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 120
Inclusion Criteria
patients undergoing donor hepatectomy
Exclusion Criteria
age less than 18 years
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate the safety of thoracic epidural analgesia in terms of <br/ ><br>1. quality of post operative analgesia <br/ ><br>2. changes in coagulation profile in post operative period and timing of removal of epidural catheter <br/ ><br>3. Incidence of epidural catheter related complicationsTimepoint: 1. Entire intraoperative period <br/ ><br>2. Post operatively everyday until epidural catheter removal <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Effect of thoracic epidural analgesia on intraoperative haemodynamic parameters, central venous pressure <br/ ><br>2.assessing whether duration of surgery, volume infused, residual liver volume and hypocalcemia increase the risk of coagulopathy in these patientsTimepoint: day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5