Rectus Sheath Block: Postoperative Analgesia and Proinflammatory Cytokines

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-04-28
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Good quality of postoperative analgesia would lead to attenuate or prevent the adverse effects on the common functions of the immune system. We compared the effect of epidural analgesia versus rectus sheath block on postoperative pain and proinflammatory cytokines following malignant urological surgery.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Male patients their age over 40 years, classified ASA I, II or III, undergoing radical resection of cancer prostate, through midline abdominal incision under general anaesthesia.

Exclusion criteria:

Contraindications to rectus sheath block as patient refusal, coagulopathy, local infection and allergy to bupivacaine. Planned transverse or oblique abdominal incision, extensive existing midline abdominal scarring or pre-existing chronic abdominal pain.