Background:Prevalence of shoulder pain is more common in cesarian section than natural vaginal delivery, and in cases in which spinal anesthesia is used is more commonly seen. If an anti-pain drug is used before the stimulant, it can reduce severity of pain and usage of painkillers. Ketamine is one of the successful painkillers in reducing pain. This study was performed in order to evaluate effect of low dose ketamine on shoulder pain followed by cesarean section.Inclusion criteria: pregnant women who based on american society of anesthesiologists classification did not have any other organic biochemical or psychiatric disease and were aged between 15-40 years old, and were candidate for selective cesarean section under spinal anesthesia.
Exclusion criteria:scientific contraindications(pre-eclampsia,eclampsia,primary hypertension,high intra-cranial pressure due to any cns pathology such as head trauma, brain tumor,recent cerebrovascular accidents),history of addiction,history of allergic reactions to ketamine,history of chronic pain,fracture or trauma to upper limb or shoulder.
Methods: In this randomized double-blind study being performed in 2016,a group of 40 pregnant women were selected for intervention and a group of 40 was selected as the control group. All the women met the inclusion criteria. Control group received 5 CC of the pure water as placebo and the second group received 0/5 mg/kg interavenus ketamine in order to evaluate the effect of ketamine in reducing the shoulder pain after cesarean section.