Impact of Local Anesthetic Wound Infiltration on Postoperative Pain Following Cesarean Delivery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if the infusion of the local anesthetic ropivacaine (a numbing medicine) and the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ketorolac (a pain killer similar to ibuprofen) through a catheter placed along the cesarean delivery incision, will reduce the pain experienced after cesarean section and need for narcotic pain medicine.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Duke University
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Ketorolac; Ketorolac Tromethamine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) class 1,2, and 3

• English speaking women at a gestational age > 37 weeks

• scheduled for cesarean delivery under spinal or combined spinal epidural anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• BMI > 50 kg/m2

• history of intravenous drug or opioid abuse

• previous history of chronic pain syndrome

• history of opioid use in the past week

• allergy or contraindication to any of the study medications

• non-English speaking