ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2013 | Volume
: 7 | Issue : 1 | Page : 57--60
Caudal epidural blockade in adolescents
Brian Schloss1, Venkata R Jayanthi2, Tarun Bhalla3, Joseph D Tobias3
1 Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, USA
2 Department of Urology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, USA
3 Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Correspondence Address:
Joseph D Tobias
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Nationwide Children«SQ»s Hospital 700 Children«SQ»s Drive, Columbus
USA
Background: Various options are available for the provision of analgesia following major surgical procedures including systemic opioids and regional anesthetic techniques. Regional anesthetic techniques offer the advantage of providing analgesia while avoiding the deleterious adverse effects associated with opioids including nausea, vomiting, sedation and respiratory depression. Although used commonly in infants and children, there is a paucity of experience with the use of caudal epidural blockade in adolescents. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the perioperative care of adolescents undergoing major urologic or orthopedic surgical procedures for whom a caudal epidural block was placed for postoperative analgesia. Results: The cohort for the study included 5 adolescents, ranging in age from 13 to 18 years and in weight from 42 to 71 kilograms. Caudal epidural analgesia was accomplished after the induction of anesthesia and prior to the start of the surgical procedure using 20-25 mL of either 0.25% bupivacaine or 0.2% ropivacaine with clonidine (1 μg/kg). The patients denied pain the recovery room. The time to first request for analgesia varied from 12 to 18 hours with the patients requiring 1-3 doses of analgesic agents during the initial 24 postoperative hours. Conclusions: Our preliminary experience demonstrates the efficacy of caudal epidural block in providing analgesia following major urologic and orthopedic surgical procedures. The applications of this technique as a means of providing postoperative analgesia are discussed.
How to cite this article:
Schloss B, Jayanthi VR, Bhalla T, Tobias JD. Caudal epidural blockade in adolescents.Saudi J Anaesth 2013;7:57-60
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Schloss B, Jayanthi VR, Bhalla T, Tobias JD. Caudal epidural blockade in adolescents. Saudi J Anaesth [serial online] 2013 [cited 2023 Apr 1 ];7:57-60
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