Caudal Combination of Dexamethasone and/or Dexmedetomidine to Bupivacaine in Pediatric Hypospadias Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-07-07
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

One of the most commonly used regional anesthetic techniques in pediatric surgeries is the caudal epidural block. Its main disadvantage remains the short duration of action. Hence, different additives have been used. Dexmedetomidine as an additive to the local anesthetic bupivacaine in caudal epidural analgesia prolongs the duration of postoperative analgesia so is dexamethasone. The investigators aimed to study the effect of combining both additives in the duration of analgesia, decreasing side effects and decreasing anesthetic doses

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University
• Treatments: BB 1101; Bupivacaine; Dexamethasone; Dexamethasone acetate; Dexmedetomidine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1 - ASA I-II 2- Males only 3- Children aged from 1-6 years 4- Children scheduled for hypospadias surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Contraindication to caudal anesthesia.

2. cardiovascular diseases.

3. drug allergy.

4. Type I diabetes.

5. Clotting disorders.

6. Mentally retarded children or those whose families did not approve inclusion in the study