Analgesic Effects of US Bilateral Rectus Sheath Block for Laparoscopic GY Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Rectus sheath block (RSB) is a kind of anterior abdominal wall block. It has postoperative analgesic effect for abdominal surgery with midline incision. Laparoscopic gynecologic surgery is accompanied by significant postoperative pain and usually IV-PCA is used to manage the pain.The purpose of this study is to investigate the analgesic effect of ultrasound-guided RSB to multi-port laparoscopic gynecologic surgery which has incision site at umbilical area. Patients will randomly assigned to two groups, RSB group and Control group. Each patients will assessed for time to first rescue analgesia, verbal numerical rating pain scores, number of rescue analgesic demands, and postoperatively opioids use by IV-PCA by a blinded investigator at 0, 1, 6, 12, 24 and 48 hours postoperatively.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital
• Treatments: Analgesics; Fentanyl; Ketorolac; Ketorolac Tromethamine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Multi-port laparoscopic gynecologic surgery

• American society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification I-II

• Age: 21-60

Exclusion Criteria:

• Gynecologic cancer operation

• History of previous abdominal surgery

• Allergy to local anesthetics(ropivacaine)

• Opioid tolerance

• Coagulopathy

• Infection at the needle insertion site

• Difficulty to cooperating