Duloxetine for Post Laparoscopic Shoulder Pain

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Despite recent advances in minimal invasive surgery, postoperative pain control remains a challenge for both surgeons and anesthesiologists . Currently, laparoscopy has an obvious favor for both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of pelvic and abdomen; while it is minimally invasive, has less pain, and needs less postoperative analgesic use compared with open surgeries . Shoulder pain is a frequent problem following laparoscopic procedure

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Duloxetine Hydrochloride

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pre-menopausal females

• Patient consent

• Patients with ASA class I-II

• Elective gynecological laparoscopy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Body Mass Index ≥ 40

• Consuming any pain killers routinely within 48 hours before the surgery

• Smoking, drug abuse

• Patients with major psychiatric disorders, epilepsy or history of convulsion

• Any known kidney or hepatic disorders

• History of any other pervious laparotomy, laparoscopy, or other pelvic manipulation or pathology except normal vaginal delivery

• History of chest or mediastinal surgery or pathology

• Recent flu (six weeks before surgery)

• Suspected to malignancy as pathology

• Those who complained from shoulder pain just before surgery in the first Visual Analog Scale assessment.