Stopped: The study was stopped early due to low recruitment, an extended projected timeline, and the need to transfer the study to CTIS, which made continuation unfeasible.
Male infant circumcision is a frequently performed, but painful procedure. A variety of methods, both systemic and locoregional, have been developed to overcome postoperative pain after circumcision. It has been shown that local anesthetic techniques are more effective than opioids. Especially caudal block and dorsal penile nerve block provide adequate early analgesia (up to 2 hours) after circumcision. Although the postoperative analgesic effects of CB and DPNB have been evaluated in literature before, these two techniques that are commonly used in circumcision surgery in the paediatric population, have not yet been compared when using DXM as an adjuvant in both methods. On the other hand, to our knowledge there is no evidence that indicates any other advantage than a reduced incidence in PONV when it comes to circumcision patients having a DNPB with IV DXM. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the analgesic effect of CB using levobupivacain with IV DXM compared to DPNB using levobupivacain with IV DXM and DPNB without IV DXM. It is questioned whether the addition of IV DXM to the DPNB might shift our standard of care towards a locoregional technique avoiding the neuraxial route, without losing the analgesic quality of the combination of a CB with IV DXM.
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Postoperative analgesic effect
Timeframe: 24 hours postoperative