There are about 674 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Lebanon. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Tonsillectomy is commonly associated with postoperative pain. The modified pre-incision infiltration of anesthetic mixture combined with general anesthesia was shown to decrease post-tonsillectomy pain in children. Hence, the present clinical trial will assess the effectiveness of this technique in adults undergoing tonsillectomy.
Video recording for term and preterm newborns hosted at the AUBMC Neonate ICU will be collected. The videos will capture movements, skin color changes, positioning, and other features relevant to the diagnosis in question. Recorded video images will be analysed by a computer software using the Eulerian Video magnification technology; then images will be correlated with simultaneously recorded physiological parameters (heart rate, respiratory rate and saturation). Images will be annotated by the clinician. Correlation between the skin coloration differentials and annotated physiological parameters may establish physiological indices. These may be used to extrapolate the existence or absence of disease states.
Paravertebral block (PVB) combined with light intravenous sedation was associated with a short hospital stay, less post-operative nausea and vomiting and reduced analgesic consumption compared to general anesthesia for ventral hernia repair. Given the effectiveness of PVB in the ventral hernia repair, it would be beneficial to study the effect of PVB with versus without clonidine in elderly patients. Patients will be randomly allocated to one of 2 groups with 30 patients in each, using the sealed envelope technique. Group one will receive PVB with clonidine while group 2 will receive PVB with placebo.