Anaesthesia
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: o Age: 1 to 7 years o Children within normal weight for age percentiles for 1 to 7 years o Children of either sexes undergoing inguinal hernia will be included in the study.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: o Parents refusing to participate in the study. o Children with coagulation disorders. o Hypersensitivity to study medications. o Developmental or mental delay. o Skin lesions or infection at the planned site of needle insertion. o Any patient with major comorbid diseases e.g.: cardiac or renal diseases
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Postoperative assessment by Children's hospital eastern Ontario pain scale which assess patient according to Parameters :cry from 1 to 3,facial from 0 to 2,child verbal from 0 to 2 , Torso from 1 to 2,Touch from 1 to 2,Legs from 1 to 2 , if the scale is more than 5 at 1 hour, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 24 hours intervals postoperative a dose of 10mg/kg of paracetamol suppository will be given as a rescue analgesia Time to first dose paracetamol as a postoperative rescue analgesia for each group will be recorded. The total dose of fentanyl that will be used as a rescue intraoperative analgesia if needed will be recorded for each group. The total dose of paracetamol that will be given postoperative as rescue analgesia will be recorded | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Safety profile of technique and incidence of complications between the three groups | — |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
assisstant lecturer at department of anesthsia faculty of medicine ain shams university