Ketamine for Shoulder Pain Following Laparoscopic Gastric Sleeve Surgery

Recruiting now · Early Phase 1

Conditions studied: Pain Management, Laparascopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

In brief

Shoulder pain is a well-recognized complaint following laparoscopic surgery. It is underlying mechanism has various causes, therefore, modalities in management and prevention of this sort of pain are numerous with different success rates. In the light of this, the investigators aim to compare an anesthetic management plan involving using ketamine (which is a known intraoperative anesthetic agent) to another not involving it for participants undergoing gastric sleeve, and compare the incidence and intensity of shoulder pain afterwards.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07429916

Run by

King Abdullah University Hospital

People needed

50

Starts

2026-01-01

Expected to finish

2026-08-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-24

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• patients aged 18-60
• American society of anesthesiologist grade 1,2
• BMI > 40
• BMI > 35 with obesity-related comorbidities

You may not qualify if…

• mentally incapacitated
• patients received any type of analgesia 24hr preoperatively except paracetamol
• history of drug abuse
• patients with low ejection fraction

Where it is running

• King Abdullah University Hospital — Irbid, Jordan (enrolling)

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