Comparative Study of Ropivacaine and Ropivacaine With Dexmeditomedine in TAP Blocks

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Comparative study of Ropivacaine and Ropivacaine with dexmedetomidine in transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block for post-operative analgesia in patients undergoing Caesarean Section.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Tata Main Hospital
• Treatments: Adrenergic Agonists; Bupivacaine; Dexmedetomidine; Fentanyl; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA 1 or 2

• Age above 18 years

• Patients for Lower Section Cesarean Section surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusal

• Allergy to study medications

• Localized infection over injection point

• Patients with significant coagulopathies and with contraindications to regional anesthesia

• Patients with a history of cardiac, respiratory, renal or hepatic failure

• Psychological disorders

• Chronic use of pain medications or adrenoreceptors agonists or antagonists.

• BMI >35 or weight < 50 kilograms