A study of comparison between the conventional anatomy based caudal analgesia and ultrasound guided caudal analgesia in paediatric patients undergoing surgeries below the level of umbilicus
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/02/040291
- Lead Sponsor
- Department of Anaesthesiology IPGMER and SSKM Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
a) Patients belonging to either sex of age 1 month to less than 12 years.
b) Patients of ASA physical status I and II.
c) Patients scheduled to undergo various elective infra-umbilical surgeries
Exclusion Criteria
a) Patients aged less than 1 month
b) Refusal from parents to give consent for the procedure.
c) Patients with evidence of peripheral neuropathy, neurological deficit or
motor weakness.
d) Patients with significant cardiac, respiratory, hepatic or renal disorders
or any other uncontrolled systemic illness
e) Bleeding diatheses or history of using anticoagulation medications
f) History of pneumothorax
g) History of allergy to amide local anaesthetics.
h) Infection at the site of needle insertion.
i) History of seizures
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1) proper needle placement <br/ ><br>2) no aspiration of blood <br/ ><br>3) no aspiration of cerebrospinal fluid <br/ ><br>4) no swelling in the sacral regionTimepoint: Outcome will be monitored during performing the procedure. This is not a therapeutic study hence duration of the procedure (from placing the ultrasound probe to placement of the needle in the caudal epidural space) will be considered as time points.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method An effective caudal analgesia without major hemodynamic alterations and avoiding inadvertent intravascular injection or dural punctureTimepoint: Intraoperative and 30 minutes after the surgery