Peri Tonsillar Infiltration of Ketamine or Bupivacaine for Post Tonsillectomy Analgesia

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Trial end date: 2023-04-02
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Comparison between the analgesic effect of local infiltration of either Bupivacaine or ketamine in the peritonsillar area before the incision of tonsillectomy to achieve postoperative analgesia

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Sohag University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Ketamine

Criteria

Inclusion criteria

• 3-20 years old patients

• elective tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy with or without ventilation tube application.

Exclusion criteria

• allergy to bupivacaine or ketamine

• coagulopathy

• endocrine, neuropsychiatric or cardiopulmonary dysfunction

• increase intracranial pressure (ICP)

• psychiatric illness, history of seizure, patients under chronic analgesic treatment

• history of peritonsillar abscess, tonsillar malignancy.