Comparing two pain blocks for children having lower abdominal surgery
Treatments studied
Part of Pain clinical trials.
This study compares two ways to give pain relief during and after lower abdominal surgery in young children: a medicine injected near the back (erector spinae plane block) versus a medicine given near the tailbone (caudal block). We want to see which method works better for controlling pain and reducing the need for extra pain medicine.
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Who can take part
- Your child must be between 1 and 8 years old.
- Your child must be scheduled for a planned (elective) lower abdominal surgery.
- Your child must be in generally good health (mild or no other conditions).
- A parent or legal guardian must give written permission for the child to take part.
- Your child cannot have bleeding disorders, infections near the injection site, serious heart/lung/brain/metabolic disease, or allergies to the study medications.
- Your child's surgery must be on one side only, without extra procedures on other body parts.
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