Effect of Perioperative Intravenous Lidocaine on Opioid Consumption and Pain After Laparoscopic Totally Extraperitoneal Inguinal Hernioplasty

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

The primary objectives of this study is to access the effect of perioperative lidocaine infusion on total morphine requirement during the first 24 h postoperatively in patients who underwent laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal inguinal hernioplasty.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
• Treatments: Analgesics, Opioid; Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male patients with American Society of Anaesthesiologists physical status (ASA PS) I and II of age 18 to 65 years

• Patients undergoing laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal repair for unilateral/bilateral inguinal hernia.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal to give consent.

• ASA physical status III or more.

• Inability to comprehend pain assessment score or severe mental impairment

• Patient who weighed < 40 kg or >100 kg

• Severe underlying cardiac rhythm disorder

• Renal or hepatic disease

• Allergic to local anaesthetics

• Epilepsy

• Patients on regular analgesics or anti-arrhythmic drugs