Dosage of Epidural Morphine in Elderly Patients

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2021-06-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This a clinical trial that evaluates the efficacy and safety of three different doses of morphine, namely 1.5 mg, 3 mg and 4.5 mg, via the epidural route regarding reducing pain in elderly patients after a cancer surgery in the lower abdomen

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Men and women aged ≥ 60 years, who are planned to undergo lower abdominal cancer surgery.

2- ASA I and II classifications. 2. Surgeries via infra-umbilical abdominal incision is considered eligible.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patient refusal.

2. Patients who are morbidly obese (body mass index ≥ 40 kg/m2).

3. Those with contraindications to neuraxial analgesia. 4- psychiatric illness that would interfere with the perception and the assessment of pain.