Intravenous Ketorolac for Postoperative Pain in Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether continuous intravenous ketorolac infusion reduces pain in patients who are having laparoscopic surgery to donate a kidney.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mayo Clinic
• Treatments: Ketorolac; Ketorolac Tromethamine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients donating a kidney via laparoscopic donor nephrectomy

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of NSAID allergy

• Asthma

• History of long term opioid use

• Intraoperative blood loss greater than 300 mL

• Postoperative hemodynamic instability

• Active peptic ulcer disease

• Advanced renal impairment (Cr > 2.0 mg/dL)

• Bleeding diathesis

• Current use of probenecid

• Pregnancy