Effect of Preemptive Intramuscular Diclofenac on Minimal Effective-Dose Bupivacaine Saddle Block for Minor Perianal Surgeries

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-10-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The research will be carried out in order to test the effect of Intramuscular (IM) Diclofenac, administered as preemptive analgesic with minimal effective dose spinal anesthesia in perianal surgeries, on prolonging the time to first request for analgesic and lowering analgesic consumption. Investigators hypothesized that using IM Diclofenac in this surgery will postpone the time to first analgesic request and will decrease the consumption of post-operative analgesics. Our method includes dividing the patients into control and study groups and recording the first analgesic request and post-operative analgesic consumption after surgery and comparing the results.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I and II scheduled for elective outpatient perianal surgery in the lithotomy position (hemorrhoidectomy, fistulectomy)

Exclusion Criteria:

• contraindications to regional anesthesia, bleeding disorders, are morbidly obese, suffer from mental health problems, are on analgesic medication or psychotropic drugs, have a known history of allergy to amide local anesthetic drugs, if there is a language barrier, or if they are unwilling to participate