Intravenous Lidocaine and Quality of Recovery After Cesarean Delivery

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2015-02-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

When given intravenously, the local anesthetic lidocaine has been shown to decrease the amount of pain medication patients require when recovering from several types of surgeries. Cesarean delivery is a very common surgery in the United States, effecting more than 1 million women each year. The investigators hypothesize that lidocaine, given during and immediately after a patient undergoes a cesarean section, will help improve a mother's overall recovery experience, as well as positively influence bonding with her new baby.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Northwestern University
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists Class II

• English speaking

• Scheduled Cesarean delivery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy to local anesthetics

• Chronic opioid use

• Greater than 2 prior cesarean deliveries

• Prior myomectomy

• Prior classical cesarean incision

• BMI greater than 40

• History of cardiac disease