Decreasing Postoperative Pain Following Endometrial Ablation

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Postoperative Pain

In brief

To determine whether paracervical injection of long acting local anesthesia decreases postoperative pain following endometrial ablation under general anesthesia.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02660918

Run by

Christiana Care Health Services

People needed

84

Starts

2016-04-01

Expected to finish

2017-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-08-28

Who can join

Age: 30 and older, up to 55. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Premenopausal women
• English as primary language
• undergoing outpatient endometrial ablation at the Christiana Hospital Surgical Center
• Indication of menorrhagia
• Inication of abnormal uterine bleeding
• Indication of thickened endometrium.

You may not qualify if…

• Known malignancy
• weight less than 50 Kg
• amide allergy
• history of chronic pain
• cardiac arrhythmia
• dilaudid/codeine allergy
• history of opioid use
• inability to take opioids by mouth
• uterine anomaly
• previous endometrial ablation
• primary language other than English.

Where it is running

• Christiana Care Health System — Newark, Delaware, United States

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