NCT03620591

Lidocaine and Analgesia After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Intraoperative Use of Lidocaine and Postoperative Analgesia After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 98 (actual)
• Sponsor: Larissa University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how effective is the intraoperative use of lidocaine to attenuate postoperative pain and opioids consumption after laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Detailed description

Acute postoperative pain may predict the development of chronic pain.Recently, the analgesic effect of lidocaine, as a part of a multimodal analgesia, has been evaluated in many studies. They have shown that lidocaine may have a role in the postoperative pain management, as an adjunct. Acute postoperative pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy is complex in nature. Postoperative pain is the main complaint and the primary reason for delay discharge after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.The study includes patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Conditions

• Postoperative Pain
• Opioid Consumption

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Lidocaine	Intraoperative administration of lidocaine
DRUG	Placebo	Intraoperative administration of normal saline

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-07-02
• Primary completion: 2022-01-31
• Completion: 2022-01-31
• First posted: 2018-08-08
• Last updated: 2022-04-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Greece