Evaluation of Local Anesthetic at Incision Site

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2020-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Patient will have usual appendectomy surgery with an injection of local or saline at incision site either before or after the incision at random.

The clinical hypothesis of this trial is that pediatric patients who undergo a local anesthetic pre-incisional and/or post-incisional will reduce the amount of postoperative pain and therefore reduce the amount of analgesics required to keep the patient satisfied.

Primary: To determine if local anesthetic reduces postoperative pain. Secondary: To assess the timing of local anesthetic injection affects postoperative pain.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Valley Anesthesiology Consultants
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing Appendectomy for acute non-perforated appendicitis Must be between 9-17 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

• n/a