Conditions: Postoperative Pain
Keywords: laparoscopy postoperative pain gynecology gabapentin
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 112
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to prospectively determine the influence of immediate pre-operative gabapentin administration on acute postoperative pain. The investigators hypothesize that immediate post-operative pain will be improved with pre-operative administration of gabapentin.

Detailed description:
The purpose of this study is to prospectively determine the influence of immediate pre-operative gabapentin administration on acute postoperative pain. We hypothesize that immediate post-operative pain will be improved with pre-operative administration of gabapentin.

We plan to conduct a prospective randomized trial to assess the effect of a single immediate pre-operative dose of gabapentin 300mg on immediate post-operative pain in patients undergoing laparoscopy for gynecologic indications. This concept has been studied in patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy. We aim to study the effect on patients undergoing laparoscopy.

Arms:
arm 1: Patients will receive Gabapentin 300mg tab less than 1 hour before surgery. arm 2: Patients will receive Methylcellulose based placebo tab less than 1 hour before surgery.

Interventions: intervention 1: Gabapentin intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Patients will receive Gabapentin 300mg tab less than 1 hour before surgery. intervention 2: Patient will receive placebo tab less than 1 hour before surgery

Protocol document: