Conditions: Bariatric Surgical Pain
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 20
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The primary objective is to assess the feasibility and safety of administering continuous intraoperative lidocaine infusions in adult patients undergoing laparoscopic Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB). The secondary objective is to determine if lidocaine administration versus placebo (dextrose administration) (initiated at the time of anesthesia induction and continued until extubation) will reduce postoperative narcotic requirements.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Intraoperative continuous IV infusion of Lidocaine at 2mg/kg/hr arm 2: Intraoperative continuous placebo infusion of dextrose at 2mg/kg/hr

Interventions: intervention 1: Lidocaine intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None

Protocol document: