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

University Hospital, Angers

Status

Completed

Conditions

Abortion, Induced

Treatments

Drug: paracetamol

Drug: ketoprofen

Drug: ketoprofen + paracetamol

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

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.