Lumbar Paravertebral in Hernia Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

An inguinal hernia is one of the most common disorders requiring surgical repair in pediatrics. The effective treatment of postoperative pain in infants and children is challenging. Although the use of opioid analgesics is generally safe, adverse effects occur frequently, so the use of alternative analgesic techniques when available to improve postoperative analgesia while limiting opioid-related adverse effects, that is why there is an increase in the use of regional anesthetic techniques in infants and children.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mansoura University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients subjected to an elective unilateral inguinal hernia repair.

2. American Society for Anesthesiologists physical status grades I and II.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Parental refusal. 2. Neuromuscular diseases (as myopathies, myasthenia gravies, etc.) 3. Hematological diseases, bleeding or coagulation abnormality. 4. Psychiatric diseases. 5. Local skin infection and sepsis at the site of the block. 6. Known intolerance to the study drugs.

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