Effectiveness of Paracervical Block in Endometrial Sampling Procedures for Pain Control
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2020-12-28
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Office-based endometrial procedures are preferred over diagnostic dilation and curettage,
nowadays. Paracervical block is single-shot nerve block that involve a one-time injection of
local anesthetic adjacent to the utero-vaginal nerve plexus. Block provides analgesia during
cervical pass of sampling device or manipulation of cervix. The paracervical block seems to
work within few minutes after injection, but the optimal waiting time between injection and
procedure is not known. In this randomized controlled study, it was aimed to determine the
effect of waiting time of 1 minute and 3 minutes after paracervical block in endometrial
sampling procedures using Pipelle cannula in terms of pain during and after the endometrial
sampling and to compare with NSAIDs taken before the procedure.