Safety and efficacy of dexamethasone as an adjuvant to bupivacaine in bilateral transversus abdominis plane block in children undergoing major abdominal surgery

Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology

Table 2 Comparison between group A and group B regarding demographic data of the studied patients

		Group A, no. = 26	Group B, no. = 26	Test value	P value	Sig.
Age (years)	Mean ± SD	2.75 ± 1.31	2.78 ± 1.21	− 0.088^b	0.930	NS
Sex	Females	12 (46.2%)	10 (38.5%)	0.315^a	0.575	NS
Sex	Males	14 (53.8%)	16 (61.5%)	0.315^a	0.575	NS
Weight (kg)	Mean ± SD	12.77 ± 2.44	12.85 ± 1.99	− 0.125^b	0.901	NS
Duration of surgery (min)	Mean ± SD	69.62 ± 7.34	70.00 ± 7.48	− 0.187^b	0.852	NS

There was no significant difference found between the two groups regarding heart rate and MBP preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative as shown in Table 3
P value > 0.05, non-significant (NS); P value < 0.05, significant (S); P value < 0.01, highly significant (HS)
^aChi-square test
^bIndependent t test