The Impact of Preoperative Aromatherapy Upon Time to First Analgesia Request After Cesarean Section

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Pain
• Interventions: Drug: aromatherapy blend containing Lavender

• Registration Number: NCT06114472
• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University

Brief Summary

one of the main aims of anesthesia is to reduce postoperative pain. However, many drugs that are used for this purpose, especially opioids, have side effects such as respiratory distress, nausea, itching, and gastrointestinal bleeding

. Recent studies have indicated interest in using complementary therapies such as heat and cold therapy, hypnotism.

Detailed Description

Pain is amongst the most common problems after surgery

(1). Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, which is associated with the real or probably damage of tissue. Unrelieved postoperative pain in addition to creating fears in the surgical patients, it makes adverse psychological impact on them

* The uncontrolled postoperative pain will make a lot of acute and chronic effects, including systemic mediators, hypercoagulability, postoperative immunosuppression, and delayed wound healing

* So, one of the main aims of anesthesia is to reduce postoperative pain. However, many drugs that are used for this purpose, especially opioids, have side effects such as respiratory distress, nausea, itching, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Recent studies have indicated interest in using complementary therapies such as heat and cold therapy, hypnotism.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-10-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-10-29
• Study Start: 2023-10-31
• Status Verified: 2023-11
• Study First Posted: 2023-11-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-11-02
• Last Update Posted: 2023-11-07
• Primary Completion: 2024-04-30
• Study Completion: 2024-05-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• Age between 20 and 40 years
• Body mass index (BMI) of 18-35 kg/m2
• Patients with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I/II,
• Patients scheduled for elective cesarean section.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient refusal

  • Allergy to local anaesthetics
  • Anosmia
  • Coagulopathy,
  • Chronic pain syndromes
  • Prolonged opioid medication
  • Patients who received any analgesic 24 h before surgery.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Group A aromatherapy	aromatherapy blend containing Lavender	three drops of aromatherapy blend containing Lavender essence 10% were poured on cotton in cast containers, and the patient was asked to inhale it for 5 minutes from a distance of 10 cm

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
time to first analgesia request	24 hours	time to first analgesia request in minutes

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Total daily consumption of analgesia	24 hours	intravenous keteloac total consumption in the 1st 24 hours

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Emad Zarief Kamel Said; 🇪🇬 Assiut, Egypt