• Fatima Tuz Zahra Shakir, Rizwan Sultan, Riaz Siddiqui, M Zubair Shah, Ayesha Javed, and Ayesha Jamal.
• Department of General Surgery, Islamabad Medical Complex, Islamabad, Pakistan.
• J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2023 Jan 1; 33 (1): 595-9.

ObjectiveTo compare intravenous lidocaine infusion adjunct to NSAID and Acetaminophen with regular analgesics for postoperative mean pain score and mean ambulation time after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.Study DesignRandomised controlled trial.Place And Duration Of StudyDepartment of General Surgery, Islamabad Medical Complex, (IMC), from March 2020 to December 2021.MethodologySixty (n=60) adult patients, both males and females between the ages of 18-60 years planned for laparoscopic cholecystectomy, were selected and randomly allocated to two groups of treatment (Lidocaine and Ringer Lactate). The control group did not receive any other placebo other than Ringer Lactate infusion. Both groups received Intramuscular Diclofenac 12 hourly and intravenous acetaminophen infusion 8 hourly. Postoperative pain 2, 6, 12 and 24 hours (h) and mean ambulation time were compared in both groups.ResultsMean VAS (Visual Analogue Scale) of group 1 versus group 2 at 2 h, 6 h, 12 h and 24 h were 3.47 ± 0.82 vs. 6.27 ± 0.52 (p=<0.001), 2.7 ± 0.75 vs. 4.8 ± 0.8 (p<0.001), 2.0 ± 0.49 vs. 3.93 ± 0.94 (p<0.001), 0.73 ± 0.82 vs. 2.2 ± 0.61 (p<0.001). Time for spontaneous ambulation after surgery was 5.57 ± 1.55 hours for Group 1 versus 7.3 ± 1.9 hours for Group 2 (p<0.001).ConclusionPain scores at all-time intervals were lower, and ambulation time was shorter in patients who received intravenous infusion of lidocaine as compared to patients who received only regular analgesics for laparoscopic cholecystectomy.Key WordsAmbulation time, Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Postoperative pain.

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