Post-operative Analgesic Effects of Dexamethasone Added to Bupivacaine in Transversusabdominis Plane (TAP) Block

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

To compare the postoperative analgesic effect of two doses of dexamethasone added to bupivacaine in ultrasound-guided TAP block for inguinal hernia repair.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Analgesics; BB 1101; Bupivacaine; Dexamethasone; Dexamethasone acetate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients' age from 18 to 60 years old,

• physical status ASA I-II (by the American Society of Anesthesiologists),

• Elective unilateral open inguinal hernia repair,

• Under spinal anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• age < 18 or > 60,

• American society of anesthesiologist (ASA)class III-IV,

• known allergy to amino amide local anesthetics,

• skin infection and diseases at site of injection.

• coagulation disorders,

• patients with body mass index (BMI) > 35 kg/m2,

• scrotal hernias,