Analgesia After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-02-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is common and may lead to delayed hospital discharge.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Dexmedetomidine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing elective LC under general anesthesia, aged from 20 to 65 years old.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Contraindications to regional block (coagulopathy, infection at the needle insertion site, or diaphragmatic paralysis)

• Altered conscious level

• Pregnancy

• Body mass index (BMI > 35)

• Patients who have difficulty understanding the study protocol 6- Patients who have any known contraindication to study medications 7- Patient refusal.