Efficacy, Safety and Limitations of Spinal Block for All Infants Under 3 Months

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Conditions studied: Anesthesia

In brief

Spinal anesthesia (SA) has been shown to be a viable alternative to general anesthesia (GA) for infants and children for a variety of surgical procedures. SA serves to avoid some of the potential risks of GA including the need for airway manipulation, hemodynamic instability, postoperative apnea, and exposure to medications that may cause neurotoxicity .SA allows the prevention and reduction of perioperative complications even if its duration is an important limiting factor. Because of this limitation, short surgery is the most indicated under SA . Premature infants and neurologically impaired children account for the majority of spinal anesthetics used today . This study evaluates the effectiveness, safety and limitations of spinal anesthesia when used for all infants under 3 months undergoing lower abdominal surgery at Ain Shams University Hospitals.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06871995

Run by

Ain Shams University

People needed

90

Starts

2025-03-01

Expected to finish

2026-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-03-12

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 0. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age under 3 months.
• Physical status: American Society of Anesthesiologists I - II.
• Elective lower abdominal surgeries such as: hernia, hydrocele, undescended testis

You may not qualify if…

• Patient's parents or legal guardian refusing to do this specific procedure.
• Coagulopathy, use of anti-coagulant or antiplatelet therapy.
• Infection at the site of injection.

Where it is running

• Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University — Cairo, Egypt (enrolling)

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