Dexamethasone With TAP Block Increasing the Duration of the Peripheral Nerve Block in Caesarian Section

Summary

Nowadays Cesarean sections became the most popular surgery worldwide with the consumption of the hospital resources and the continuous need to decrease the costs, work load and medical stuff engagement. One of the most common problem is the need to control pain post operatively, this issue increase the work load over the pain management team and increase lead to patient in satisfaction. This study will test the usage of dexamethasone with different doses (4 and 8 mg) either locally or intravenously (I.V.) with the local anesthetics in TAP (transversus abdominis plane) block to prolong the duration of the block and decrease the need of post-operative analgesics.

Timeline

Start

2015-05

Primary completion

2016-11

Completion

2017-01

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.