Comparative Efficacy of IV Parecoxib vs Lidocaine in Reducing Propofol Injection Pain
Status:
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Trial end date:
2026-12-30
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Summary
Propofol is the most popular IV anaesthetic agent used for induction, however one of its known side effects is causing pain on injection, the gold standard method in preventing this pain is using lidocaine prior to injecting propofol. multiple drugs have been investigated to reduce the aforementioned pain, however there has been no study comparing lidocaine to parecoxib, an NSAID.