The Impact of Preoperative Aromatherapy Upon Time to First Analgesia Request After Cesarean Section

Assiut University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Drug: aromatherapy blend containing Lavender

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06114472

IRB8888888888

Details and patient eligibility

About

one of the main aims of anesthesia is to reduce postoperative pain. However, many drugs that are used for this purpose, especially opioids, have side effects such as respiratory distress, nausea, itching, and gastrointestinal bleeding

. Recent studies have indicated interest in using complementary therapies such as heat and cold therapy, hypnotism.

Full description

Pain is amongst the most common problems after surgery

(1). Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, which is associated with the real or probably damage of tissue. Unrelieved postoperative pain in addition to creating fears in the surgical patients, it makes adverse psychological impact on them

• The uncontrolled postoperative pain will make a lot of acute and chronic effects, including systemic mediators, hypercoagulability, postoperative immunosuppression, and delayed wound healing
• So, one of the main aims of anesthesia is to reduce postoperative pain. However, many drugs that are used for this purpose, especially opioids, have side effects such as respiratory distress, nausea, itching, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Recent studies have indicated interest in using complementary therapies such as heat and cold therapy, hypnotism.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 20 and 40 years
• Body mass index (BMI) of 18-35 kg/m2
• Patients with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I/II,
• Patients scheduled for elective cesarean section.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient refusal

  • Allergy to local anaesthetics
  • Anosmia
  • Coagulopathy,
  • Chronic pain syndromes
  • Prolonged opioid medication
  • Patients who received any analgesic 24 h before surgery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A aromatherapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

three drops of aromatherapy blend containing Lavender essence 10% were poured on cotton in cast containers, and the patient was asked to inhale it for 5 minutes from a distance of 10 cm

Treatment:

Drug: aromatherapy blend containing Lavender

Group B Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention