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Efficacy and Safety of EXPAREL Versus Standard of Care (SoC) in Subjects Undergoing Elective Cesarean Section

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03853694

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Official title

A Multicenter, Randomized, Active-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of EXPAREL When Administered Via Infiltration Into the Transversus Abdominis Plane Versus Standard of Care in Subjects Undergoing Elective Cesarean Section (CHOICE)

Brief summary

Reproduced verbatim from the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Not medical advice.

The purpose of this study is to compare total opioid consumption by subjects in different treatment groups. Another purpose of this study is to assess how well EXPAREL works, collect any safety data and assess your satisfaction using EXPAREL.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT03853694
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 4
Lead sponsor
Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Industry
Enrollment
167 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
Female
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Mar 4, 2019 (Actual)
Primary completion
Jan 9, 2020 (Actual)
Completion
Jan 16, 2020 (Actual)
Last update posted
Jul 18, 2022

2019 – 2020

United States locations

U.S. sites
18
U.S. states
13
U.S. cities
16
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California 94305 —
University of Florida- Gainesville Gainesville Florida 32610 —
University of Florida college of Medicine - Jacksonville Jacksonville Florida 32209 —
Clinical Research Prime Idaho Falls Idaho 83404 —
Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Massachusetts 02114 —
Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston Massachusetts 02115 —
Henry Ford Hospital Detroit Michigan 48202 —
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Brunswick New Jersey 08901 —
St. Peter's University Medical Center New Brunswick New Jersey 08901 —
Columbia University Medical Center/NY Presbyterian Hospital New York New York 10032 —
Duke University Medical Center Durham North Carolina 27710 —
Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Ohio 44195 —
Ohio State University Columbus Ohio 43210 —
Thomas Jefferson Medical Center Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19107 —
Magee-Women's Hospital of UPMC Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213 —
The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston Texas 77555-0877 —
Inova Health System Falls Church Virginia 22042 —
West Virginia University Morgantown West Virginia 86506 —

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