Carbetocin is a synthetic analogue of the hormone Oxytocin and is routinely used in obstetric
anesthesiology to control uterine bleeding after cesarean section. As an incidental finding,
women who received carbetocin had less pain after cesarean section than women who had
received Oxytocin. Carbetocin may therefore have an analgesic effect.
The present study examines this analgesic effect using different sensory tests, e.g.
pressure, heat, cold and electrical pain before and after administration of carbetocin in
healthy male volunteers. Any changes in these sensory tests might be indicative of an
analgesic property of carbetocin.