Dexamethasone & Ketamine as Adjuvants to Bupivacaine for Incisional Infiltration in Pediatric Abdominal Operations

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2021-04-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to compare the effects of both ketamine and dexamethasone on the duration and magnitude of analgesia when combined with bupivacaine for incisional infiltration in pediatric abdominal operations.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ain Shams University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Dexamethasone; Ketamine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children of both sexes aged 1-8 years, ASA I-II, undergoing moderate to major abdominal operations.

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of diabetes, cardiac or neurological disease

• Hypersensitivity to any of the drugs used in the study.

• Risk of wound complications ( as infected wound, history of wound dehiscence, hypo--albuminaemia)

• Multiple incision sites