NCT00188071

Postoperative Pain After Medical Abortion Under Local Anesthesia : Comparison of Several Analgesic Regimen

Postoperative Pain After Medical Abortion Under Local Anesthesia : a Prospective and Randomized Trial Comparing Several Analgesic Regimen

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 240 (planned)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Angers · Other Government
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

* To compare postoperative analgesia by paracetamol 1gr or ketoprofen 100 mg or the combination of these two analgesics * each treatment beeing allocated by randomization

Detailed description

* 240 pregnant women who undewent a medical abortion by aspiration, under local anesthesia, (day case surgery) were enrolled after informed consent and signed approval * according to randomization, they received one hour before medical abortion procedure performed under local anesthesia of the cervix, one of these three diffrente analgesics : * paracetamol 1 gr * ketoprofen 100 mg * the association of both Postprocedure pain was recorded, by nurse, using a visual analog scale (VAS), 7 times before and after the procedure, until the discharge of the patient. * if VAS was above 40 on two consecutive measurements a morphine injection was given. * the number and total amount of morphine was recorded. * satisfaction was recorded within the 3 postoperative day by a telephone inquiry.

Conditions

• Abortion, Induced

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	paracetamol
DRUG	ketoprofen
DRUG	ketoprofen + paracetamol

Timeline

• Start date: 2002-09-01
• Completion: 2003-08-01
• First posted: 2005-09-16
• Last updated: 2017-11-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France