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Analgesic Efficacy After Umbilical Hernia Repair in Children

NCT00578136 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2014-08-15

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Summary

Umbilical hernia repair is a common painful outpatient procedure performed in children. Often analgesia for this procedure is provided by using local infiltration of the surgical site by the surgeons and perioperative opioids and NSAIDS both IV and orally. The use of opioids can cause adverse side effects which include, but are not limited to nausea, vomiting, itching, and respiratory depression, etc. The rectus sheath block can be performed in these patients to decrease their post operative pain.

Conditions

  • Umbilical Hernia

Interventions

DRUG

Bupivacaine

Bupivacaine, 0.25%, dose amount is weight based, injection is divided per dise with rectus sheath injection or with local infiltration of the operative area.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Harshad Gurnaney, MBBS · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-11-30
Primary Completion
2009-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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