Analgesic Efficacy After Umbilical Hernia Repair in Children

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Umbilical hernia repair is a common painful outpatient procedure performed in children. Often analgesia for this procedure is provided by using local infiltration of the surgical site by the surgeons and perioperative opioids and NSAIDS both IV and orally. The use of opioids can cause adverse side effects which include, but are not limited to nausea, vomiting, itching, and respiratory depression, etc. The rectus sheath block can be performed in these patients to decrease their post operative pain.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Collaborator: Children's Anesthesiology Associates, Ltd.
• Treatments: Analgesics; Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Male or female subjects ages > 5 to < 18 years.

2. American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA)physical status 1 or 2.

3. Patients who undergo an umbilical hernia repair at CHOP.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Parents/patients refusal to the placement of a rectus sheath nerve block.

2. Subjects with allergy to bupivacaine.

3. Patients who are developmentally delayed which precludes their participation in pain scale reporting.

4. Parents who do not comprehend English sufficiently well to read the consent and ask questions.