Erector Spinae Plane Block in Scoliotic Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-12-02
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

For scoliotic surgeries, Erector Spinae Plane Block (ESPB) can add to the multimodal approach for perioperative pain management with decreasing the opioids requirement, improving recovery and decreasing ICU stay.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Kasr El Aini Hospital
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Fentanyl; Ketorolac; Ketorolac Tromethamine; Meperidine; Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American society of Anesthesia classification (ASA) I-II

• Patients undergoing dorsal spine instrumentation for scoliosis.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal of block.

• Bleeding tendency with prothrombin concentration PC less than 75 % or platelet count less than 150,000/µL.

• Skin lesion, wounds or infection at the puncture site.

• Known allergy to local anaesthetic drugs.