High percent of patients experience chronic pain following breast cancer surgeries thus proper perioperative pain control is crucial to lessen the incidence of such pain. Several techniques are adopted to control perioperative pain, these techniques include drugs as opioids and adjuvants as well as regional blocks. Erector spinae plane block is a regional technique that is used efficiently to control perioperative pain during and following breast cancer surgeries.
High percent of patients experience chronic pain following breast cancer surgeries thus proper perioperative pain control is crucial to lessen the incidence of such pain. Several techniques are adopted to control perioperative pain, these techniques include drugs as opioids and adjuvants as well as regional blocks. Erector spinae plane block is a regional technique that is used efficiently to control perioperative pain during and following breast cancer surgeries. Adding adjuvant drugs as dexmedetomidine or dexamethasone can augment the local anesthetic effect for the regional block used.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
68
Patients will receive bilevel erector spinae plane block with bupivacaine
Patients will receive bilevel erector spinae plane block with bupivacaine and dexamethasone
Patients will receive bilevel erector spinae plane block with bupivacaine and dexmedetomidine
Walaa Y Elsabeeny
Cairo, Egypt
Total morphine consumption in the first 24 hours postoperatively.
Assessment of total postoperative morphine consumption
Time frame: First 24 hours postoperatively
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Intravenous morphine 0.1 mg/kg