NCT00905580

Perioperative Administration of Pregabalin for Pain After Robot-assisted Endoscopic Thyroidectomy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 99 (actual)
• Sponsor: Severance Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothesize that pregabalin will decrease post-operative pain scores and analgesic use following robot-assisted endoscopic thyroidectomy compared to placebo. The primary outcome will be acute postoperative pain, measured by a verbal numerical rating score (VNRS) and total analgesic consumption during postoperative 48 hours. The secondary outcome will be the incidence of chronic pain and hypoesthesia in the anterior chest at 3 months after operation.

Conditions

• Pain, Postoperative

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Pregabalin	Pregabalin 150 mg orally
DRUG	Vitamin Complex (placebo)	Vitamin Complex 150 mg orally

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-05-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2009-05-20
• Last updated: 2010-01-20
• Results posted: 2010-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea