A Trial of Levator Muscle Blocks Following Posterior Colporrhaphy Surgery to Reduce Post-operative Pain.

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Post Operative Pain

In brief

To determine if levator muscle block with bupivacaine improves postoperative pain control relative to placebo controls among women undergoing prolapse surgery involving a posterior colporrhaphy. Improvement is defined as no less than a 25% lower total pain score on a ten point numerical pain scale.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03067168

Run by

The Christ Hospital

People needed

128

Starts

2017-05-15

Expected to finish

2019-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-01-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Any woman over the age of 18 years with a capacity to give informed consent who are undergoing vaginal prolapse surgery including a posterior colporrhaphy may be included in the study.

You may not qualify if…

• Any woman who is a non-English speaker, does not have ability to provide consent, has a cardiac arrhythmia, liver disease, myasthenia gravis, bleeding diathesis or adverse reaction / allergy to anesthetic will be excluded. Women that are also having vaginal mesh excisions at the time of prolapse repair or those that will undergo subsequent surgery in the follow up period will be excluded.

Where it is running

• The University of Kansas Medical Center — Kansas City, Kansas, United States
• The Christ Hospital — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• The University of Toledo — Toledo, Ohio, United States

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