Conditions: Pain, Postoperative
Keywords: preemptive analgesia paracervical block vaginal hysterectomy
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 90
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Preemptive analgesia is an intervention which provides an anesthetic prior to initiating a painful stimulus. This trial is examining the effects of a local anesthetic given at the point of innervation prior to performing a vaginal hysterectomy with suspension sutures.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Active preemptive local analgesia. arm 2: Placebo for preemptive local analgesia.

Interventions: intervention 1: bupivacaine and epinephrine intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 20 ml of 0.5% bupivacaine with 1:200,000 epinephrine paracervical injection. intervention 2: 20 ml normal saline injection.

Protocol document: