4% Intrauterine Lidocaine Infusion for Pain Management in First Trimester Abortions
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2004-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Recent studies have investigated the use of local anesthetics (i.e. lidocaine, mepivacaine)
to lessen the pain experienced with minor gynecologic procedures such as endometrial biopsy
and office hysteroscopy. Local anesthetic injected into the uterine cavity has been
demonstrated effective in some studies at decreasing patient pain associated with these
intrauterine procedures at an anesthetic concentration of at least 2%. Based on this
evidence, we hypothesized that an intrauterine lidocaine infusion may reduce patient pain
during first trimester abortions.