NCT02115087

Efficacy Study of Rectus Sheath Block to Control Postoperative Pain

The Effect of Ultrasound Guided Rectus Sheath Block on Postoperative Analgesia After Laparotomy With Transverse Incision in Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cukurova University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the ultrasound guided rectus sheath block (RSB) on both intraoperative sevoflurane consumption and postoperative analgesia.

Detailed description

Prospective, randomized study.Forty patients with American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) I-II physical status, aged 3-15 years.Patients are randomly allocated into two groups and are administered general anesthesia and before the beginning of surgery ultrasound guided RSB with 0.2 ml.kg-1, 0.25% of levobupivacaine and thirty minutes before the surgery the loading dose of morphine of 0.1 mg.kg-1 intravenously are received in group RSB and group M, respectively. Patient controlled analgesia (PCA) device with 0.01 mg.kg-1 bolus dose of morphine and 30 minutes lockout interval is set up postoperatively in both groups.

Conditions

• Pain, Postoperative

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	ultrasound guided rectus sheath block	the application of rectus sheath block with ultrasound guidance
DRUG	Morphine

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-01-01
• Completion: 2011-01-01
• First posted: 2014-04-15
• Last updated: 2014-04-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)