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NCT Number: NCT02285491

Local Anesthetic Injection Into Both Angles of the Rectus Sheath Incision

Local anesthetic will be injected into both angles of the rectus sheath incision in an attempt to block sensory nerves in this area that cause the sensation of pain from lscs wound.

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Key information

Conditions

Postoperative Cesarean Delivery Pain

Age range

20 year–40 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Early Phase 1

Primary location

Ain Shams Maternity Hospital

Cairo, Egypt

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • patients booked for lscs
  • primisection
  • singleton pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

  • emergency cesarean section
  • bleeding tendency
  • hypersensitivity to local anesthetic

Treatment and study plan

10ml of bupivacaine 0.5%

Drug

This is a local anesthetic that will be used to block the ilioinguinal nerve to alleviate pain at the wound site after lscs

Placebo

Drug

10 ml of saline will be injected as a placebo and the investigator and the patient and the data assessor are all blinded to what the patients received.

Other names: saline

Primary outcomes

  1. Pain assessment during rest and ambulation by visual analogue scale

    Time frame: for 24 hours after lscs

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Ain Shams Maternity Hospital

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Efficacy of Local Anesthetic Injection Into Both Angles of the Rectus Sheath Incision for Postoperative Cesarean Delivery Analgesia.

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Nov 7, 2014
Registry last updated
Feb 9, 2016

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