Clinical trialNCT00180687CompletedPhase 3Interventional

Clinical Trial of the Use of Intraperitoneal Local Anaesthetic

SponsorImperial College LondonEnrollment80Pain, Postoperative

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Summary

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Patients undergoing keyhole gall bladder removal will be divided into 3 groups, one control, one will have local anaesthetic and the third will have normal saline nebulised into their abdomen before closure of the wounds to reduce postoperative pain. These medications will be given on top of the standard pain management protocol.

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Investigators

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Nawar A Alkhamesi, MD, PhD
Imperial College London
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United Kingdom

St. Mary'S Hospital
London, United Kingdom

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Injected Bupivacaine intraperitoneallyNebulised Bupivacaine intraperitoneallyNormal Saline

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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Oct 2004
Primary completion: 30 Sept 2005
Completion: 30 Sept 2005
Last update posted: 15 Sept 2015
Registered enrollment: 80
Registry id: NCT00180687

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