Feasibility of ultrasound versus fluoroscopy guided caudal epidural block for low back pain with radiculopathy: a randomised controlled study.

Government Medical College and Hospital0 个研究点目标入组 0 人开始时间: 待定最近更新: 2022年10月17日

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•1) Patients attending the Pain Clinic of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, with chronic low back pain (LBP) of more than 3 months duration with bilateral radiculopathy, not responding to conservative treatment
•2) Age 25- 80 years
•3) American Society of Anaesthesiology (ASA)Physical status I or II
•4) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of lumbosacral spine findings of disc protrusion and disc bulge at various levels of lumbar spine and impingement of exiting and traversing nerve roots

•1) Patients refusing to provide informed consent
•2) Systemic infection or local infection at the site of injection
•3) Bleeding diathesis or full anticoagulation
•4) Significant allergic reaction/hypersensitivity to contrast, anaesthetic, or corticosteroid
•5) Local malignancy
•6) Patient refusal
•7) Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
•8) Patients with severe cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and hepatic diseases
•9) Pregnancy (due to fluoroscopy)
•10) Cases with severe motor weakness, rapidly progressing neurological deficit, cauda equina syndrome

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Government Medical College and Hospital