Study to Compare Reduction in Pain After Surgery With and Without Local Anesthesia During Laparoscopy

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2014-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This study will help to answer the question, "Does injecting local anesthetic before laparoscopic instrument ports are placed decrease pain after surgery?" Patients participating will be randomly assigned to receive local anesthetic or saline injection at the site of a laparoscopic instrument port as part of their planned surgery. After surgery at 4 and 24 hours the patient will be asked to rate their pain on a simple chart.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Stony Brook University
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cardiovascular instability

• malignancies

• pulmonary conditions incompatible with laparoscopic surgery