Lidocaine and Prevention of Chronic Pain

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The study seeks to investigate a safe and inexpensive strategy to reduce persistent post-surgical pain that can affect up to 60% of patients undergoing surgical procedures.

Hypotheses: Perioperative systemic lidocaine reduces the persistence of chronic pain in patients undergoing surgical procedures.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Northwestern University
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18-64,

• Females undergoing gynecological, urological or breast surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnant,

• history of chronic use of opioids,

• allergy to local anesthetics,

• history of cardiac arrhythmias Drop out: patient or surgeon request