Postoperative PainNCT03408184
Lumbar Paravertebral in Hernia Surgery
A study testing Lumbar paravertebral group and The field block group in people with Postoperative Pain, run by Mansoura University at 1 site in Egypt.
Trial summary
An inguinal hernia is one of the most common disorders requiring surgical repair in pediatrics. The effective treatment of postoperative pain in infants and children is challenging. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 3 to 8 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Postoperative Pain
- What is being tested?
- Lumbar paravertebral group and The field block group
- Type of treatment
- Injection or infusion
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 60 participants
- Where
- 1 siteEgypt
- Study dates
- 9 Aug 2016to 1 Aug 2017
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 3 to 8 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child
Who may be able to join
- Patients subjected to an elective unilateral inguinal hernia repair.
- American Society for Anesthesiologists physical status grades I and II.
Who cannot join
- 1. Parental refusal. 2. Neuromuscular diseases (as myopathies, myasthenia gravies, etc.) 3. Hematological diseases, bleeding or coagulation abnormality. 4. Psychiatric diseases. 5. Local skin infection and sepsis at the site of the block. 6. Known intolerance to the study drugs.
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Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
Egypt1 site
Mansoura University Children's Hospital
Al Mansurah, Dakahlia Governorate, 35516
About this study
Official title: Comparison Between Lumbar Paravertebral and Field Blocks in Pediatric Inguinal Hernia Surgery.
An inguinal hernia is one of the most common disorders requiring surgical repair in pediatrics. The effective treatment of postoperative pain in infants and children is challenging. Although the use of opioid analgesics is generally safe, adverse effects occur frequently, so the use of alternative analgesic techniques when available to improve postoperative analgesia while limiting opioid-related adverse effects, that is why there is an increase in the use of regional anesthetic techniques in infants and children.
Read the detailed description
Different anesthetic regional techniques can be used for anesthesia and analgesia of the lower abdominal surgeries such as caudal, spinal, epidural, transversus abdominis plane block, ilioinguinal nerve block, lumbar plexus block, the field block and abdominal paravertebral block. The use of regional anesthesia with ultrasound guidance can help decrease complications of regional blocks.
In the lumbar area, the lumbar paravertebral space is a potential space formed by the vertebral bodies, intervertebral discs and intervertebral foramina medially, the psoas major muscle anterolaterally and the erector spinae muscles, the transverse process and intertransverse ligaments posteriorly. There is no costotransverse ligament in the lumbar region. The lumbar spinal nerve roots run through the paravertebral space then continue through the psoas major muscle where they form the lumbar plexus.The spinal nerves in this space are devoid of a fascial sheath making them exceptionally susceptible to local anesthetics. The diaphragm and psoas muscle separate the thoracic and lumbar paravertebral areas; however, communication may occur via the medial and lateral arcuate ligaments of the diaphragm.
Field block can be done by subcutaneous injection of a local anesthetic in an area bordering on the field to be anesthetized. It is safe, simple, effective, and economical, without post anesthesia side effects. Furthermore, local anesthesia administered before the incision produces longer postoperative analgesia because of local infiltration, theoretically, inhibits the build-up of local nociceptive molecules, and therefore, there is better pain control in the postoperative period.
The aim of this study is to compare the analgesic and autonomic effects of unilateral abdominal ultrasound guided paravertebral block with field block in pediatric inguinal hernia surgery.
This study hypothesizes that unilateral abdominal ultrasound guided paravertebral block may be more superior to field block in reducing intra and postoperative pain in the pediatric inguinal hernia. The analgesic efficacy and duration of ultrasound (US) guided unilateral lumbar paravertebral block and field block were compared when dexmedetomidine and epinephrine were added as adjuvants to bupivacaine.
- Conditions
- Postoperative Pain
- Being tested
- Lumbar paravertebral group, The field block group
- Medical subject headings
- Pain, Postoperative
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Lumbar paravertebral groupDrug
A mixture of 0.5 ml /kg bupivacaine (0.25%), and 0.5µg/Kg dexmedetomidine and Epinephrine 5 microgram/ ml.
The field block groupDrug
A mixture of 0.5 ml /kg bupivacaine (0.25%), and 0.5µg/Kg dexmedetomidine and Epinephrine 5 microgram/ ml.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Lumbar paravertebral group | Active comparator | After general anesthesia, the patient is placed prone. To establish the level of the block, we used US-counting of vertebrae. After determining the lumbar one level, the block performed at a parallel line 2 cm lateral to the spinous process, the transducer is moved until the corresponding transverse process is identified. Utilizing an in-plane approach from lateral to medial, a spinal needle is advanced until contact with the transverse process. The needle is withdrawn and redirected caudally under the transverse process helped by the loss of resistance technique. the solution is slowly injected after negative aspiration for blood. Receives: Drug: Lumbar paravertebral group |
| The field block group | Active comparator | The ilioinguinal nerve block was done at one fingerbreadth from the anterior superior iliac spine in a line with the pubic tubercle, The injection was done after the bob of the needle after passing the external oblique aponeurosis and muscle and 5ml of the solution is injected. The rest of the solution is injected in the incision line. Receives: Drug: The field block group |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
The total dose of analgesics required in the post-operative periods
Fentanyl in microgram.
Measured: 24 hours postoperatively
Secondary outcomes (6)
Modified Faces Legs Activity Cry Consolability Revised pain Scale
pain score of 5 items (Faces, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability) each of 0, 1, or 2 points. 0= express no pain, 1= mild pain, 2= the highest pain indicator. A total score 0 = Relaxed and comfortable. 1-3 = Mild discomfort. 4-6 = Moderate pain. 7-10 = Severe pain.
Measured: postoperative at 1, 2, 4, 8,16, 24 hours.
Mean Blood pressure
millimeter mercury
Measured: Basal preoperative, during incision, 30 minutes, 60 minutes intraoperatively, postoperative at 1, 2, 4, 8,16, 24 hours.
Heart rate
beat/minutes
Measured: Basal preoperative, during incision, 30 minutes, 60 minutes intraoperatively, postoperative at 1, 2, 4, 8,16, 24 hours.
Modified Ramsay sedation scale.
a scale from (1- 6), 1 = anxious; 2 = oriented \& tranquil; 3 = sedated, but responds to commands; 4 = asleep, brisk glabellar reflex or response to loud noise; 5 = asleep, slugglish glabellar reflex or response to loud noise; 6 = asleep with no response to painful stimulus
Measured: postoperative at 2, 4, 6, 12, 16, 24 hours.
Parents' satisfaction score
in a visual analogue score from (0-10), 0= minimal satisfaction, 10 = the highest satisfaction.
Measured: postoperative after 24 hours.
Adverse effects including nausea and vomiting, bradycardia (heart rate less than 60 beat/minute)
percent
Measured: postoperatively in the first 24 hours.
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted23 Jan 2018
- Study start9 Aug 2016
- Primary completion1 Aug 2017
- Study completion1 Aug 2017
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Postoperative PainStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- Parallel Assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Mansoura University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03408184
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- MS/16.06.19
- Status last verified
- Jan 2018
- First submitted
- 10 Jan 2018
- Last updated
- 1 Feb 2018
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: after publication
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 1 Feb 2018. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Comparison Between Lumbar Paravertebral and Field Blocks in Pediatric Inguinal Hernia Surgery.
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03408184
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- MS/16.06.19
- Conditions
- Postoperative Pain
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Mansoura UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 9 Aug 2016 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 1 Aug 2017 (actual)
- Study completion
- 1 Aug 2017 (actual)
- First posted
- 23 Jan 2018 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
An inguinal hernia is one of the most common disorders requiring surgical repair in pediatrics. The effective treatment of postoperative pain in infants and children is challenging. Although the use of opioid analgesics is generally safe, adverse effects occur frequently, so the use of alternative analgesic techniques when available to improve postoperative analgesia while limiting opioid-related adverse effects, that is why there is an increase in the use of regional anesthetic techniques in infants and children.
Detailed description
Different anesthetic regional techniques can be used for anesthesia and analgesia of the lower abdominal surgeries such as caudal, spinal, epidural, transversus abdominis plane block, ilioinguinal nerve block, lumbar plexus block, the field block and abdominal paravertebral block. The use of regional anesthesia with ultrasound guidance can help decrease complications of regional blocks.
In the lumbar area, the lumbar paravertebral space is a potential space formed by the vertebral bodies, intervertebral discs and intervertebral foramina medially, the psoas major muscle anterolaterally and the erector spinae muscles, the transverse process and intertransverse ligaments posteriorly. There is no costotransverse ligament in the lumbar region. The lumbar spinal nerve roots run through the paravertebral space then continue through the psoas major muscle where they form the lumbar plexus.The spinal nerves in this space are devoid of a fascial sheath making them exceptionally susceptible to local anesthetics. The diaphragm and psoas muscle separate the thoracic and lumbar paravertebral areas; however, communication may occur via the medial and lateral arcuate ligaments of the diaphragm.
Field block can be done by subcutaneous injection of a local anesthetic in an area bordering on the field to be anesthetized. It is safe, simple, effective, and economical, without post anesthesia side effects. Furthermore, local anesthesia administered before the incision produces longer postoperative analgesia because of local infiltration, theoretically, inhibits the build-up of local nociceptive molecules, and therefore, there is better pain control in the postoperative period.
The aim of this study is to compare the analgesic and autonomic effects of unilateral abdominal ultrasound guided paravertebral block with field block in pediatric inguinal hernia surgery.
This study hypothesizes that unilateral abdominal ultrasound guided paravertebral block may be more superior to field block in reducing intra and postoperative pain in the pediatric inguinal hernia. The analgesic efficacy and duration of ultrasound (US) guided unilateral lumbar paravertebral block and field block were compared when dexmedetomidine and epinephrine were added as adjuvants to bupivacaine.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- Parallel Assignment
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Lumbar paravertebral group | Active comparator | Drug: Lumbar paravertebral groupAfter general anesthesia, the patient is placed prone. To establish the level of the block, we used US-counting of vertebrae. After determining the lumbar one level, the block performed at a parallel line 2 cm lateral to the spinous process, the transducer is moved until the corresponding transverse process is identified. Utilizing an in-plane approach from lateral to medial, a spinal needle is advanced until contact with the transverse process. The needle is withdrawn and redirected caudally under the transverse process helped by the loss of resistance technique. the solution is slowly injected after negative aspiration for blood. |
| The field block group | Active comparator | Drug: The field block groupThe ilioinguinal nerve block was done at one fingerbreadth from the anterior superior iliac spine in a line with the pubic tubercle, The injection was done after the bob of the needle after passing the external oblique aponeurosis and muscle and 5ml of the solution is injected. The rest of the solution is injected in the incision line. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 3 to 8 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Patients subjected to an elective unilateral inguinal hernia repair.
- American Society for Anesthesiologists physical status grades I and II.
Key exclusion criteria (2 listed)
- 1. Parental refusal. 2. Neuromuscular diseases (as myopathies, myasthenia gravies, etc.) 3. Hematological diseases, bleeding or coagulation abnormality. 4. Psychiatric diseases. 5. Local skin infection and sepsis at the site of the block. 6. Known intolerance to the study drugs.
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Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Lumbar paravertebral groupA mixture of 0.5 ml /kg bupivacaine (0.25%), and 0.5µg/Kg dexmedetomidine and Epinephrine 5 microgram/ ml. | Drug | Lumbar paravertebral group |
| The field block groupA mixture of 0.5 ml /kg bupivacaine (0.25%), and 0.5µg/Kg dexmedetomidine and Epinephrine 5 microgram/ ml. | Drug | The field block group |
Primary outcome
The total dose of analgesics required in the post-operative periods
Time frame: 24 hours postoperatively
Fentanyl in microgram.
6 secondary outcomes
Modified Faces Legs Activity Cry Consolability Revised pain Scale
Time frame: postoperative at 1, 2, 4, 8,16, 24 hours.
Mean Blood pressure
Time frame: Basal preoperative, during incision, 30 minutes, 60 minutes intraoperatively, postoperative at 1, 2, 4, 8,16, 24 hours.
Heart rate
Time frame: Basal preoperative, during incision, 30 minutes, 60 minutes intraoperatively, postoperative at 1, 2, 4, 8,16, 24 hours.
Modified Ramsay sedation scale.
Time frame: postoperative at 2, 4, 6, 12, 16, 24 hours.
Parents' satisfaction score
Time frame: postoperative after 24 hours.
Adverse effects including nausea and vomiting, bradycardia (heart rate less than 60 beat/minute)
Time frame: postoperatively in the first 24 hours.
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 1 Feb 2018.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. after publication
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Referral and contact
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The record lists no contact. Use the official record to reach the sponsor.
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Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Lumbar paravertebral group and The field block group in people with Postoperative Pain, run by Mansoura University at 1 site in Egypt.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 1 Feb 2018. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Egypt. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
The total dose of analgesics required in the post-operative periods (time frame: 24 hours postoperatively). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
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AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 1 Feb 2018; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 31 Oct 2026.