Intravenous Acetaminophen Use With Bariatric Surgery on Morbidly Obese Patients

Summary

Bariatric patients usually require the use of either intravenous or oral opioid medications. The use of opioids, however, is often associated with side-effects such as nausea, sedation pruritus, urinary retention and respiratory depression with often delay patient discharge. This study makes use of intravenous acetaminophen , a non-opioid analgesic preoperatively to determine if this will decrease the use of opioids post-operatively for pain management in morbidly obese patients undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery.

Timeline

Start

2012-03

Primary completion

2013-07

Completion

2013-07

Drugs

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