Conditions: Pain, Postoperative Hernia, Inguinal
Keywords: postoperative pain chronic pain
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 425
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to test whether pregabalin added to the standard of care with dosing starting preoperatively and continuing for 1 week post surgery will decrease the intensity of acute post-operative pain following inguinal hernia repair.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None arm 3: None arm 4: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Pregabalin intervention 2: placebo intervention 3: Pregabalin intervention 4: Pregabalin
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 150 mg BID intervention 2: Placebo intervention 3: 75 mg BID intervention 4: 25 mg BID

Protocol document: