Dexamethasone With TAP Block Increasing the Duration of the Peripheral Nerve Block in Caesarian Section
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2017-01-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
Nowadays Cesarean sections became the most popular surgery worldwide with the consumption of
the hospital resources and the continuous need to decrease the costs, work load and medical
stuff engagement. One of the most common problem is the need to control pain post
operatively, this issue increase the work load over the pain management team and increase
lead to patient in satisfaction.
This study will test the usage of dexamethasone with different doses (4 and 8 mg) either
locally or intravenously (I.V.) with the local anesthetics in TAP (transversus abdominis
plane) block to prolong the duration of the block and decrease the need of post-operative
analgesics.