Ultrasound Guided Retrolaminar Block for Pediatric Inguinal Hernia
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2020-11-20
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Regional analgesia for inguinal hernia repair in children has attracted increasing interest
and different techniques like Caudal block, lumbar epidural block, wound infiltration,
Ilio-inguinal nerve block and paravertebral block have been used with varying success.
Ilio-inguinal nerve blockade has been widely used in this context but the duration of the
block is also limited to the early postoperative period. Paravertebral blockade has been
shown to produce long lasting postoperative analgesia when used in combination with general
anaesthesia in paediatric herniorrhaphy . Ultrasound-guided retrolaminar block is one of the
newer and technically simpler alternatives to the traditional PV block . The aim of this
study is to test the efficacy and safety of ultrasound guided retrolaminar block(RLB) as an
analgesic technique in surgery of pediatric inguinal hernia in comparison with with
ilioinguinal nerve block(INB). It is hypothesized that RLB block will provide longer duration
of postoperative analgesia than INB with few side effects.