Dexamethasone for Post Cesarean Delivery Analgesia

Completed · Phase 4 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Postoperative Pain

In brief

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness intravenous (IV) dexamethasone when used as part of a multimodal regimen to manage post cesarean delivery pain. We hypothesize that a single dose of IV dexamethasone administered, as part of a multimodal analgesia after spinal anesthesia will significantly reduce post cesarean delivery opioid consumption and pain

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01868633

Run by

University of Iowa

People needed

52

Starts

2013-03-01

Expected to finish

2015-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-09-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 50. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• English Speaking
• Non-laboring women
• Scheduled Elective Cesarean section under spinal anesthesia
• American Society of Anesthesiologists I-II physical status

You may not qualify if…

• Contraindications to spinal anesthesia
• allergy to study medication
• patients with allergy to morphine
• patients with uncontrolled hypertension
• history of peptic ulcer disease
• liver cirrhosis
• diabetes mellitus
• glaucoma
• known IV drug abusers
• patients with chronic pain or on long term opioids
• patients administered steroids in the past week
• women with fetuses having known congenital abnormalities
• psychiatric illness such that they are unable to comprehend or participate in study questions
• patients on antiviral medications or live virus vaccines would also be excluded.

Where it is running

• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics — Iowa City, Iowa, United States

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