Postoperative Pain After Medical Abortion Under Local Anesthesia : Comparison of Several Analgesic Regimen

Overview

* To compare postoperative analgesia by paracetamol 1gr or ketoprofen 100 mg or the combination of these two analgesics * each treatment beeing allocated by randomization

* 240 pregnant women who undewent a medical abortion by aspiration, under local anesthesia, (day case surgery) were enrolled after informed consent and signed approval * according to randomization, they received one hour before medical abortion procedure performed under local anesthesia of the cervix, one of these three diffrente analgesics : * paracetamol 1 gr * ketoprofen 100 mg * the association of both Postprocedure pain was recorded, by nurse, using a visual analog scale (VAS), 7 times before and after the procedure, until the discharge of the patient. * if VAS was above 40 on two consecutive measurements a morphine injection was given. * the number and total amount of morphine was recorded. * satisfaction was recorded within the 3 postoperative day by a telephone inquiry.

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