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Study to Compare Reduction in Pain After Surgery With and Without Local Anesthesia During Laparoscopy

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Waitlist Available
Led By James N Droesch, MD
Research Sponsored by Stony Brook University
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
* patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 4 and 24 hours after surgery
Awards & highlights
All Individual Drugs Already Approved
Approved for 10 Other Conditions

Summary

This study will help to answer the question, "Does injecting local anesthetic before laparoscopic instrument ports are placed decrease pain after surgery?" Patients participating will be randomly assigned to receive local anesthetic or saline injection at the site of a laparoscopic instrument port as part of their planned surgery. After surgery at 4 and 24 hours the patient will be asked to rate their pain on a simple chart.

Eligible Conditions
  • Postoperative Pain

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

You may be eligible if you check “Yes” for the criteria below

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~4 and 24 hours after surgery
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 4 and 24 hours after surgery for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary study objectives
Reduction in post-operative pain at large lateral port sites

Awards & Highlights

All Individual Drugs Already Approved
Therapies where all constituent drugs have already been approved are likely to have better-understood side effect profiles.
Approved for 10 Other Conditions
This treatment demonstrated efficacy for 10 other conditions.

Trial Design

4Treatment groups
Active Control
Placebo Group
Group I: Postincision marcaineActive Control2 Interventions
This group will receive preincisional marcaine and then marcaine injection at study port site prior to closure
Group II: Preincision MarcaineActive Control1 Intervention
This group will receive marcaine injection at the study port site prior to incision
Group III: Preincision PlaceboPlacebo Group1 Intervention
This group of patients will receive saline injection at study port site before incision
Group IV: Postincision PlaceboPlacebo Group2 Interventions
This group of patients will receive preincisional marcaine and then saline injection at study port site prior to closure

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Stony Brook UniversityLead Sponsor
223 Previous Clinical Trials
41,452 Total Patients Enrolled
1 Trials studying Postoperative Pain
30 Patients Enrolled for Postoperative Pain
James N Droesch, MDPrincipal InvestigatorStony Brook University
~7 spots leftby Dec 2025
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