Intravenous Versus Perineural Effect Dexamethasone in Interscalene Nerve Block With Levobupivacaine

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Trial end date: 2020-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Interscalene brachial plexus block can be used as an additive to general anaesthesia or as the primary anaesthetic for shoulder surgeries for pain management.

The investigators compared the effect of perineural versus intravenous dexamethasone on the prolongation of the action of levobupivacaine in ultrasound guided interscalene block for shoulder and upper arm surgeries.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mansoura University
• Treatments: BB 1101; Dexamethasone; Dexamethasone acetate; Levobupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status grade I and grade II.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusal.

• Neuromuscular diseases (as myopathies, myasthenia gravies, …...)

• Hematological diseases, bleeding or coagulation abnormality.

• Psychiatric diseases.

• Local skin infection

• Sepsis at site of the block.

• Known intolerance to the study drugs.

• Body Mass Index > 40 Kg/m2

• contralateral phrenic palsy

• pneumothorax

• pneumectomy

• severe COPD