Intrathecal Nalbuphine Versus Midazolam in Cesarean Section

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1

Total Enrollment

90 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-04-10

Study Completion Date

2019-12-01

Brief Summary

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Adequate pain management is important to facilitate the functional recovery and enable the patients for rapid rehabilitation of normal activity .

Various adjuvants were being used with intrathecal bupivacain to prolong \& improve postoperative pain relief in patients undergoing cesarean section .

The aim of this study was to compare intrathecal nalbuphine versus intrathecal midazolam in patient undergoing cesarean section. The investigators primary aims were to compare the characteristics of sensory and motor block, the effective analgesic time, and analgesic requirement. Secondary aims were to compare the side effects, sedation score and apgare score.

Detailed Description

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Analgesia is the main point for each patient postoperatively. It is important to provide good analgesia with less hazardous (1). Cesarean section is a painful operation in need for adequate postoperative analgesia (1). Adequate pain management is important to facilitate the functional recovery and enable the patients for rapid rehabilitation of their normal activity (2).

Cesarean section was done under general anesthesia (GA) or regional anesthesia. The subarachnoid blockade is the preferred procedure (3). It avoids the depressant effect of GA on neonate and also the risk of aspiration, with better postoperative pain relief. However the most commonly local anesthetic used, hyperbaric bupivacaine has limited effect lasts for 1.5 - 2 hours (4). Its onset was slow with short duration of postoperative analgesia (3).

Adjuvant drugs added to bupivacaine intrathecally improve the duration and quality of the blockade and prolong the postoperative analgesia (5). Various adjuvants were being used such as alpha2 agonists, neostigmine, opiates, and ketamine etc, yet no drug was identified to specifically inhibit nociception without side effects (6).

Nalbuphine is a synthetic opioid with mixed agonist antagonist effect. It provides a significantly rapid onset of pain relief probably because of its lipophilic properties. It binds to both mu-and kappa receptors, binding of nalbuphine to mu receptors competitively displace other mu-agonists from these receptors without any agonist activity. Therefore decrease the side effects of mu agonist (nausea, vomiting, respiratory depression , urinary retention, pruritis and prolonged sedation) (7). While when binds to kappa receptors nalbuphine has agonist effect (analgesic effect) through the kappa receptors distributed in the brain and spinal cord(1). There were no documented studies of nalbuphine neurotoxicity (5, 8).

Benzodiazepines are used mainly for sedation, anoxiolysis and amnesia. Discovery of their receptors in spinal cord allow the use of midazolam intrathecally for analgesia. Several studies show that the addition of intrathecal midazolam potentiates the analgesic effect of intrathecal bupivacain without significant side effects, or neurotoxicity (9, 10).

There are several studies studied the effect of intrathecal nalbuphine and intrathecal midazolam but to The investigators knowledge no study compares between them.

The aim of this study was to compare intrathecal nalbuphine versus intrathecal midazolam in patient undergoing cesarean section. The investigators primary aims were to compare the characteristics of sensory and motor block, the effective analgesic time, and analgesic requirement. Secondary aims were to compare the side effects, sedation score and apgare score.

Conditions

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Cesarean Section Pain

Keywords

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nalbuphine midazolam

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Controlled comparative Double blind randomized study

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

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Study Groups

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bupivacaine

12.5 mg hyperbaric bupivacaine + 0.5 ml 0.9% normal saline .

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL