Preemptive Ketorolac for Shoulder Tip Pain During Cesarean Section

Phase 4 Completed 200 enrolled Assiut University

RandomizedParallel-groupQuadruple-blindPrevention

Summary

Our study is planned to investigate if pre-emptive Ketorolac would decrease the incidence of intraoperative shoulder tip pain and improve discomfort during Caesarean section.

Timeline

Start: 2015-03
Primary completion: 2015-09
Completion: 2015-09

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper The incidence of intraoperative shoulder pain in the control group was significantly higher than the ketorolac group (P = 0.003). PMID 28993164 ↗

Publications

Abbas MS, Askar OA, Abdel Aleem AA. Pre-emptive ketorolac for prevention of intraoperative shoulder pain in patients undergoing cesarean section: A double blind randomized clinical trial. Asian J Anesthesiol. 2017 Sep;55(3):68-72. doi: 10.1016/j.aja.2017.07.002. Epub 2017 Sep 20.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Ketorolac	Other / unclassified	30 mg	Intravenous

Indications

No indication recorded.