Decreasing Postoperative Pain Following Endometrial Ablation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

To determine whether paracervical injection of long acting local anesthesia decreases postoperative pain following endometrial ablation under general anesthesia.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Christiana Care Health Services
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Premenopausal women

• English as primary language

• undergoing outpatient endometrial ablation at the Christiana Hospital Surgical Center

• Indication of menorrhagia

• Inication of abnormal uterine bleeding

• Indication of thickened endometrium.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known malignancy

• weight less than 50 Kg

• amide allergy

• history of chronic pain

• cardiac arrhythmia

• dilaudid/codeine allergy

• history of opioid use

• inability to take opioids by mouth

• uterine anomaly

• previous endometrial ablation

• primary language other than English.