Intracervical Anesthesia and Pain Associated With Intrauterine Contraceptive Insertion

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-08-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The primary aim of our study is to evaluate the effect of intracervical anesthesia on pain scores immediately following levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) insertion in nulligravida women.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo
• Collaborator: University of Campinas, Brazil
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age between 18 and 45 years;

• That were never pregnant before;

• That wants to use LNG-IUD;

• Not pregnant at the time of insertion;

• No haematological disease;

• That do not have signs and / or symptoms of vaginal / cervical infection.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Categories 3 and / or 4 for the use of LNG-IUD according to the medical eligibility criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO), users of illicit drugs and / or alcohol, allergy or contraindication to lidocaine, presence of chronic pelvic pain of any etiology, presence of cervical abnormality such as isthmus-cervical fibrosis or incompetence, surgery on the cervix, psychiatric disorders, chronic use of medications that could interfere with the pain threshold (such as antidepressants and anticonvulsants).