pecs block
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A Randomized Controlled Trial On Recovery Profile- Comparison Between Pecs Block With Sedation Vs General Anaesthesia For Day Care Breast Surgeries
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We hypothesized that Pecs block provided a longer duration of analgesia in day care breast surgeries.For the study to have 80% power and alpha error at 0.05, a minimum of 25 patients would be required in each group to detect a 20% difference in duration of analgesia, assuming a standard deviation of 1.5. Hence, we enrolled 30 patients in each group to compensate for possible dropouts.Data were entered in MS Excel spreadsheet (2010) and were analysed using the statistical package for social sciences version 22 (trial version).Descriptive statistics including proportions, measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion were used to describe the data.Further, Student’s t test was used to compare means between the groups and Chi-square test was used to compare proportions. A p < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.A p<0.001 was considered highly significant.