Regional Analgesia After Cesarean Section
CompletedPhase 4NCT03244540
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
All patients will be anaesthetized with spinal technique. Each patient will be treated with intravenous morphine - patient controlled analgesia (PCA). 2 of 3 groups of patients will receive ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane or quadratus lumborum block to treat postoperative pain. Postoperative pain will measured with visual-analogue scale (VAS). Total morphine consumption and time to the first demand will be noted. 1, 2, 6 months after surgery each patient will be called to assess neuropathic pain with Neuropathic Pain Symptom Inventory (NPSI).
Study details
- Official title
- Efficacy of Regional Analgesia Techniques (Quadratus Lumborum Block and Transversus Abdominis Plane Block) in Acute and Chronic Pain Treatment in Patients After Cesarean Delivery
- Conditions
- Cesarean Section
- Pain, Postoperative
- Pain, Neuropathic
- Interventions
- Procedure: TAP (transversus abdominis plane block)
- Procedure: QLB (quadratus lumborum block)
- Device: Stimuplex Ultra 360 needle
- Drug: Ropivacaine
- Drug: Paracetamol
- Procedure: subarachnoid anesthesia
- Procedure: PCA (patient controlled analgesia)
- Drug: Metamizol
- Drug: Ketoprofen
- Drug: Bupivacaine
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Lublin
- Start date
- 2017-09-04
- Primary completion
- 2018-10-29
- Sex
- Female
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Poland
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * obtained consent * singleton pregnancy * subarachnoid anaesthesia Exclusion Criteria: * coagulopathy * allergy to morphine and local anesthetics * depression, antidepressant drugs treatment * epilepsy * usage of painkiller before surgery * addiction to alcohol or recreational drugs
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03244540