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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00564655
Date of registration: 27/11/2007
Primary sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children
Public title: Regional Anesthesia Block of the Transversus Abdominis Plane in Children Undergoing Gastric Tube Insertion
Scientific title: Regional Anesthesia Block of the Transversus Abdominis Plane in Children Undergoing Gastric Tube Insertion
Date of first enrolment: October 2007
Target sample size: 20
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00564655
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Canada
Contacts
Name:   Conor Mc Donnell, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 416-813-7654
Email: conor.mcdonnell@sickkids.ca
Affiliation: 
Name:   Conor Mc Donnell, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 416-813-7654
Email: conor.mcdonnell@sickkids.ca
Affiliation: 
Name:   Conor Mc Donnell, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Canada
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- ASA I - III

- One to ten years of age

- Scheduled to undergo gastric tube insertion in IGT

- Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients requiring emergency procedures

- Refusal of regional block

- History of seizure disorder

- Allergy or sensitivity to bupivacaine, morphine, or radiological contrast

- Hepatic disease

- Bleeding disorder

- Use of pre-operative sedation

- Skin lesions or wounds at site of proposed needle insertion

- Evidence of peritonitis or septicemia

- Patients with ventriculo-peritoneal shunts in situ

- Patients taking any of the following drugs: procainamide, disopyramide, flecainide,
mexiletine, cimetidine and ranitidine



Age minimum: 1 Year
Age maximum: 10 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Anesthesia
Enteral Nutrition
Intervention(s)
Procedure: bupivacaine with epinephrine (mid and upper abdomen)
Procedure: bupivacaine with epinephrine (transversus abdominis plane)
Primary Outcome(s)
Morphine consumption [Time Frame: For 24 hours after the time of first eye-opening post-procedure]
Pain, sedation, nausea & vomiting scores [Time Frame: Pre-procedure; every 15 minutes from time of first eye-opening post-procedure until discharge from post-anesthesia care unit (PACU); on the ward at 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, and 24 hours]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Parent satisfaction with analgesia and the procedure [Time Frame: On the day following surgery]
Time until the patient is discharged from PACU to the ward [Time Frame: At time of PACU discharge]
Secondary ID(s)
1000011192
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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