Ultrasound Guided Retrolaminar Block for Pediatric Inguinal Hernia

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2020-11-20
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Regional analgesia for inguinal hernia repair in children has attracted increasing interest and different techniques like Caudal block, lumbar epidural block, wound infiltration, Ilio-inguinal nerve block and paravertebral block have been used with varying success. Ilio-inguinal nerve blockade has been widely used in this context but the duration of the block is also limited to the early postoperative period. Paravertebral blockade has been shown to produce long lasting postoperative analgesia when used in combination with general anaesthesia in paediatric herniorrhaphy . Ultrasound-guided retrolaminar block is one of the newer and technically simpler alternatives to the traditional PV block . The aim of this study is to test the efficacy and safety of ultrasound guided retrolaminar block(RLB) as an analgesic technique in surgery of pediatric inguinal hernia in comparison with with ilioinguinal nerve block(INB). It is hypothesized that RLB block will provide longer duration of postoperative analgesia than INB with few side effects.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mahmoud Mohammed Alseoudy
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• • American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) status: 1 or 2 .

• Unilateral inguinal hernia

Exclusion Criteria:

• •spinal abnormality

• bilateral inguinal hernia repair

• Bleeding or coagulation diathesis.

• History of known sensitivity to the used anesthetics.

• Parental refusal of consent.