Adjuvants for Bupivacaine in Brachial Plexus Block in Pediatrics

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2024-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Among paediatrics aging 3:12 who are going to have upper limb surgery,does adding clonidine to bupivacaine improve brachial plexus block outcome in comparison with magnesium sulfate with bupivacaine?

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Clonidine; Magnesium Sulfate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anaesthesiologists Classes I and II patients.

• within the age group of 3-12 years.

• requiring unilateral upper limb surgery at or below the elbow.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The patients that have contraindications to regional anaesthetics, previous nerve injuries, history of allergy to study drugs, history of bleeding disorders.

• children with any mental disability which will confound pain assessment or inability to understand the pain scale used in the study.

• patients on anticoagulants.

• patients with any major systemic illness will be excluded from the study.