Abdominal Wall Nerve Blockade: A Comparison With Local Port Site Injection as Well as Between the Use of Ultrasound and Laparoscopy to Guide Placement

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2020-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators will perform a prospective randomized study to compare the effectiveness of laparoscopic-guided abdominal wall nerve blocks with local wound site infiltration and with ultrasounded guided abdominal wall blocks.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Marcus Malek; University of Pittsburgh
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients 5 - 17 years old.

2. Patients undergoing laparoscopic procedures

3. Patients that weigh greater than or equal to 34 kg and less than 100 kg.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients who underwent open surgical procedures will be excluded from this study.

2. Patients that weigh less than 34kg.

3. Patients that weigh more than 100 kg.

4. Perforated appendicitis.

5. Bowel obstruction