Postoperative Analgesic Effects of Infraorbital Nerve Block in Cleft Palate Surgery
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2020-03-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
Cleft palate repair is a common surgery in children.. As such children with cleft palate tend
to have a compromised airway due to associated congenital anomalies like Pierre Robin
syndrome, Treacher Collins syndrome etc. After surgical correction of cleft palate, they are
more prone to develop post-operative respiratory difficulty due to narrowed airway, increased
secretion, pain and sedation caused by opioids.
Hence, regional block, using local anesthetics, becomes a good option in this surgery.
The supremacy of bilateral infraorital block using levo bupivacaine over intravenous fentanyl
as well as over peri-incisional infiltration in has been shown .Levobupivacaine was developed
after Ropivaciane was noted to be associated with less no of adverse events.. Ropivacaine has
been used for peripheral block in children for surgical pain.
Though the use of Levobupivacaine in regional blocks in facial surgeries has been well
established, studies are still needed to establish its supremacy over Ropivacaine in cleft
palate surgeries
Phase:
N/A
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Lead Sponsor:
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh