Oral Sedation During Cervical Dilator Placement

Summary

This will be a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involving 2 arms. It will be comparing the effects of placebo compared to 1 mg oral lorazepam/5 mg oral oxycodone on pain scores during cervical dilator placement prior to dilation and evacuation (D\&E).

Timeline

Start

2017-06-28

Primary completion

2019-05-28

Completion

2019-05-28

Publications

• Background Mercier RJ, Liberty A. Intrauterine lidocaine for pain control during laminaria insertion: a randomized controlled trial. Contraception. 2014 Dec;90(6):594-600. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2014.07.008. Epub 2014 Jul 23.
• Background Soon, R. T., M.; Salcedo. J.; Kaneshiro, B., Paracervical block to decrease pain with second-trimester laminaria insertion: a randomized controlled trial. Contraception 2016, 94 (4), 389.
• Background Wong CY, Ng EH, Ngai SW, Ho PC. A randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study to investigate the use of conscious sedation in conjunction with paracervical block for reducing pain in termination of first trimester pregnancy by suction evacuation. Hum Reprod. 2002 May;17(5):1222-5. doi: 10.1093/humrep/17.5.1222.
• Background Wiebe E, Podhradsky L, Dijak V. The effect of lorazepam on pain and anxiety in abortion. Contraception. 2003 Mar;67(3):219-21. doi: 10.1016/s0010-7824(02)00516-4.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.