Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Postoperative Pain Following TAH With GA vs. Combined GA + SAB

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2012-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The investigators hypothesize that a spinal anesthetic administered prior to the induction of general anesthesia will result in reduced need for pain medication and reduced postoperative pain, as well as reduced hospital stay following a total abdominal hysterectomy.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Saskatchewan
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, General

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA) I and II patients undergoing elective Total Abdominal Hysterectomy at the Saskatoon City Hospital

• Lower transverse abdominal incision

Exclusion Criteria:

• BMI > 40

• The TAH is treatment for cancer

• A history of regular opioid use

• Any medical condition that would make a spinal inadvisable,

• An allergy or medical condition that would make it inadvisable to receive the drugs used in this study (eg. Peptic ulcer disease), or

• If you will also be having a salpingo-oophorectomy).