To evaluate the impact on the postoperative pain of the dexamethasone addition to the usual treatment with bupivacaine in the local infiltration of the surgical area in Inguinal Hernia Repair Mesh
This study will be: controlled, prospective, randomized and double blind. Randomized experimental study in which all patients scheduled to undergo unilateral inguinal hernia repair and who meet the inclusion criteria and none of the exclusion criteria will be invited to participate. At the time of admission to the study, they were assigned randomly to one of the two branches of intervention: (Group A): infiltration with 0.5% bupivacaine in doses of 1.5 mg / kg body weight diluted in physiological solution to a final volume of 30 ml. (Group B): infiltration with 0.5% bupivacaine at doses of 1.5 mg / kg body weight + dexamethasone 2 ml (8 mg) diluted in physiological solution to a final volume of 30 ml. Pain will be evaluated through the visual analogue scale of 0-10 measured at the 1st postoperative hour, then every 2 hours until discharge, at discharge, at 8 hours, at 24 hours, 48 hours and at 8 days . It will also evaluate analgesic consumption, complications and labor return
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
82
Bupivacaine 1,5 mg/kg-Dexamethasone 2ml 8 mg
Bupivacaine 1,5 mg/kg- physiological solution
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Peron 4190
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires F.D., Argentina
pain postoperative
It will be used a 10cm ruler which will allows the patients indicates how much pain they are feeling at the moment, where 0 is no pain at all and 10 is the maximum imaginable pain.
Time frame: 3 month
take analgesic
Medication journal completed by patient
Time frame: 1 month
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