Intravenous Acetaminophen Use With Bariatric Surgery on Morbidly Obese Patients
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2013-07-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Bariatric patients usually require the use of either intravenous or oral opioid medications.
The use of opioids, however, is often associated with side-effects such as nausea, sedation
pruritus, urinary retention and respiratory depression with often delay patient discharge.
This study makes use of intravenous acetaminophen , a non-opioid analgesic preoperatively to
determine if this will decrease the use of opioids post-operatively for pain management in
morbidly obese patients undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery.