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

U

University Hospital, Angers

Status

Completed

Conditions

Abortion, Induced

Treatments

Drug: paracetamol
Drug: ketoprofen
Drug: ketoprofen + paracetamol

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00188071
CP 02-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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.

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • pregnant women
  • medical abortion performed in day case surgery under local anesthesia
  • informed written consent

Exclusion criteria

  • under 18 year old

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

Trial contacts and locations

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