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Study aim
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Election the best analgesic method after inguinal hernia repair surgery in children
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Design
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Interventional study with a control group of parallel, randomized, double-blind Phase 2-3 using the table of random numbers that were performed on 159 patients
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Settings and conduct
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This double-blind study is performed on 159 children who are candidates for inguinal hernia repair surgery referred to Akbar Hospital in Mashhad.
Patients and the analyzers will be blinded. patients will be divided into 3 groups based on analgesia methods.In the intervention groups, one group is given intravenous acetaminophen and the second is given acetaminophen suppository and the control group is subjected to caudal block and the evaluation of analgesia is performed according to the behavioral-FLACC criteria.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Children aged 6 months to 3 years are candidates for inguinal hernia repair surgery, no history of bupivacaine allergy, no local infection in the spine, no pilonidal cyst, no deformity or lesion in the spine, no history of allergies To acetaminophen, no history of liver problems, no history of heart disease
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Intervention groups
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Candidate children for inguinal hernia repair surgery who underwent general anesthesia by induction with 1 microgram / kg fentanyl, 3 to 5 mg / kg 1% propofol and 0.5 mg / kg atracurium, intubated, in the first intervention group after induction and before surgery, intravenous acetaminophen 12.5 mg / kg and in the second intervention group 15 mg / kg acetaminophen suppository and in the control group 0.25% bupivacaine block dose at a dose of 1 ml / kg is used, after surgery and extubation, the patient is transferred to recovery and the patient's pain is measured according to the behaivorial-FLACC criterion.
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Main outcome variables
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The amount of analgesia after surgery in recovery according to the behaivorial-FLACC criteria