Impact of Local Anesthetic Wound Infiltration on Postoperative Pain Following Cesarean Delivery

Completed · Phase 4 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Pain

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine if the infusion of the local anesthetic ropivacaine (a numbing medicine) and the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ketorolac (a pain killer similar to ibuprofen) through a catheter placed along the cesarean delivery incision, will reduce the pain experienced after cesarean section and need for narcotic pain medicine.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02829944

Run by

Duke University

People needed

84

Starts

2016-11-01

Expected to finish

2019-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) class 1,2, and 3
• English speaking women at a gestational age > 37 weeks
• scheduled for cesarean delivery under spinal or combined spinal epidural anesthesia

You may not qualify if…

• BMI > 50 kg/m2
• history of intravenous drug or opioid abuse
• previous history of chronic pain syndrome
• history of opioid use in the past week
• allergy or contraindication to any of the study medications
• non-English speaking

Where it is running

• Duke University Hospital — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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