Perioperative Analgesic Efficiency of Quadratus Lumborum Block vs Epidural in Radical Cystectomy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-09-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study is performed to measure the perioperative analgesic efficiency of bilateral quadratus lumborum block versus epidural analgesia in bladder cancer patients undergoing radical cystectomy

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Cancer Institute, Egypt
• Treatments: Analgesics; Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA II-III

• Adult patients (>18 years old)

• Both sexes

• Scheduled for radical cystectomy at NCI, CU

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient's refusal of the study procedures

• Allergy to drugs used in the study

• Patients with chronic pain

• Patients with coagulopathies (INR > 1.6 or platelets count < 50,000 cc3)

• Hemodynamically unstable patients (e.g. BP < 90/60)

• Patients with local or intra-abdominal infections concerning intervention sites and septic patients