NCT01548027

Surgical Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in Pediatric Patients

Efficacy of Surgical Transversus Abdominis Plane Block for Postoperative Pain Relief Following Abdominal Surgery in Pediatric Patients.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mahidol University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of this study to determine the effect of surgical transversus abdominis plane block and local infiltration for postoperative pain control in major abdominal surgery compare with control group.

Detailed description

Most children experience postoperative pain after major abdominal surgery. They may have ineffective ventilation, following atelectasis and pneumonia if receive inadequate pain management. There are several methods used for pain relief such as epidural block, intravenous analgesia with local infiltration, transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block by ultrasound guided and surgical TAP block. Therefore, the investigators would like to compare the effectiveness of postoperative pain control with TAP block. However, TAP block in children need experience and ultrasound. The investigators decided to do surgical TAP block performing by inject from peritoneum point to skin instead.

Conditions

• Child

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Local infiltration group	patients would have 0.5 ml/kg of 0.25% bupivacaine if age \< 6 months or 1 ml/kg if age \> 6 months around the wound by surgeon. The needle will be injected in subcutaneous tissue parallel to the wound.
PROCEDURE	TAP block	Surgical TAP block (sTAP: Patients would have 0.5 ml/kg of 0.25% bupivacaine if age \< 6 months or 1 ml/kg if age \> 6 months
OTHER	No intervention	No intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-07-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2014-07-01
• First posted: 2012-03-08
• Last updated: 2014-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand