Arthroscopic shoulder surgery is often associated with severe postoperative pain that is often significant enough to interfere with initial recovery and rehabilitation. The pain that can be difficult to manage without large dose of opioid. The study aim to explore the effect of continuous irrigation of fluids mixed with lidocaine and epinephrine for analgesic consumption and postoperative pain after shoulder arthroscopy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
50
Under aseptic condition every one litre of fluid irrigation will be mixture with 10 ml of lidocaine 2% and 0.25mg epinephrine and the last one use before end of surgery dexamethasone 8 mg will be added.
0.25 mg epinephrine mixed with one litre of fluid irrigation
Minia University Hospital
Minya, Egypt
total analgesic consumption
total nalbuphine consumed one day after surgery
Time frame: 24 hours
first analgesic request
time of PCA request
Time frame: 24 hours
Visual analogue pain score
pain intensity at rest and movement from 0-10 which 0 no pain and 10 the worst pain
Time frame: 24 hours
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