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Dexamethasone As Adjuvant for Pre - emptiveTransversusAbdominus Muscle Plane Block

NCT06970548 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2025-05-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Pain following bariatric surgery can be quite troublesome and prolongs recovery. Although laparoscopic bariatric surgery is minimally invasive and involves small incisions over the anterior abdominal wall, postoperative pain is frequent . Most morbidly obese patients also have obstructive sleep apnea and associated with cardiac co-morbidities. Prolonged postoperative pain in them may lead to delay in early ambulation and performing deep breathing exercises.

Conditions

  • Post Operative Pain

Interventions

DRUG

Levobupivacaine

To evaluate efficacy of addition of dexamethasone to levopubivacaine in tranversusabdominis plane block (TAP) in postoperative pain management, postoperative analgesic consumption, and patient comfort after laparoscopic bariatric surgery.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sohag University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ahmed hamody Hassan · Anesthesiology, Intensive care, and Pain Management, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-01
Primary Completion
2023-05-20
Completion
2023-06-01

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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