Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Postoperative Pain Following TAH With GA vs. Combined GA + SAB

University of Saskatchewan

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Hysterectomy

Treatments: Drug: General Anesthesia (control group); Drug: General Anesthesia + Spinal anesthesia combined

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01511627

RCT GA + SAB for TAH

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesize that a spinal anesthetic administered prior to the induction of general anesthesia will result in reduced need for pain medication and reduced postoperative pain, as well as reduced hospital stay following a total abdominal hysterectomy.

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA) I and II patients undergoing elective Total Abdominal Hysterectomy at the Saskatoon City Hospital
• Lower transverse abdominal incision

Exclusion criteria

• BMI > 40
• The TAH is treatment for cancer
• A history of regular opioid use
• Any medical condition that would make a spinal inadvisable,
• An allergy or medical condition that would make it inadvisable to receive the drugs used in this study (eg. Peptic ulcer disease), or
• If you will also be having a salpingo-oophorectomy).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

General Anesthesia

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: General Anesthesia (control group)

General Anesthesia + Spinal Anesthesia

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: General Anesthesia + Spinal anesthesia combined