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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 May 2023
Main ID:  PACTR201704002165131
Date of registration: 01/04/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: National Board For Higher Education
Public title: TAP Block In Area with Limited Resources
Scientific title: Transversus Abdominis Plane Block after Cesarean Section in an Area with Limited Resources
Date of first enrolment: 30/12/2014
Target sample size: 108
Recruitment status: Complete
URL:  https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=2165
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Factorial: participants randomly allocated to either no, one, some or all interventions simultaneously,Randomised,Patients with odd numbr assigned to the control group and patients with even number assigned to the TAP group,Sealed opaque envelopes  
Phase:  Not Applicable
Countries of recruitment
Eritrea
Contacts
Name: Berhane    Debru
Address:  Ararib 174,Asmara Eritrea 291 291-1-122899 Eritrea
Telephone: 002917141606
Email: berhanebd59@gmail.com
Affiliation:  Chairman of the Health research Proposal review and Ethical commitee of Ministry of Health
Name: zemenfes    Tsige
Address:  Mai Bela Ave, Asmara, Eritrea 219 Asmara Eritrea
Telephone: 00291-1-162133
Email: zemenfest@gmail.com
Affiliation:  Director of postgratuat studies and Intrnational Linkage, National Board for Higher education
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: ¿Mothers with body mass index ¿ 30 kg/m2)
¿All mothers classified as ASA I/II
¿Patients under spinal anesthesia
¿All emergency and elective patients who are scheduled for Pfannenstiel incision under spinal anesthesia

Exclusion criteria: ¿Patients with any history of allergy to the drugs used in this study
¿Obesity (body mass index ¿ 30 kg/m2)
¿Local infection at the injection site of the TAP
¿Patients with cardiovascular, pulmonary and neurological diseases
¿Patients requiring general anesthesia for obstetric or anesthetic reasons
¿Patients undergoing upper segment caesarean section
¿Maternal or fetal compromise


Age minimum: 18 Year(s)
Age maximum: 45 Year(s)
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pain Management
Surgery

Surgery
Pain Management
Intervention(s)
TAP Block Group
Control Group
Primary Outcome(s)
The primary outcome of the study was visual analog scale pain score in the first 24 postoperative hours
Secondary Outcome(s)
Reduction in the consumption of morphine and diclofenac postoperatively
Reduction in the postoperative side effects of morphine
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Eritrea Research Fund
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date: 03/09/2014
Contact:
Health Research proposal Review and Ethics Commitee, Ministry of Health,Eritrea
Results
Results available:
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Date Completed:
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