Local Anaesthetic for Transvaginal Egg Collection in IVF

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2002-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The purpose of this study is to see whether injecting local anaesthetic into the vaginal tissues,just prior to transvaginal egg collection,will decrease the amount of pain experienced by women having their eggs collected on an IVF cycle. All women will also receive intravenous sedation as required as well as a sleeping tablet thirty minutes prior to the procedure which is our routine procedure for egg collection.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The Fertility Centre, New Zealand
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• About to undergo transvaginal oocyte retrieval

Exclusion Criteria:

• Already undergone oocyte retrieval and participated in study (i.e. 2nd or more oocyte collection procedure during study period)

• Allergy to lignocaine

• Oocytes only to be collected from one ovary

• Procedure expected to be exceptionally painful