# Improving Pain Relief Following Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair

> **NCT02785276** · NA · WITHDRAWN · sponsor: **University of Auckland, New Zealand**

## Conditions studied

- Pain, Postoperative
- Anesthesia, Local
- Hernia, Ventral
- Laparoscopy
- Analgesics, Opioid
- Complications

## Interventions

- **DEVICE:** AutoFuser Pain Pump
- **DRUG:** Ropivacaine
- **OTHER:** Normal Saline (0.9%)

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02785276
- **Lead sponsor:** University of Auckland, New Zealand
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** WITHDRAWN
- **Start date:** 2016-08
- **Primary completion:** 2017-08
- **Final completion:** 2018-08
- **Target enrollment:** 0 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Study not initiated
- **Last updated:** 2019-09-30


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02785276

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02785276, "Improving Pain Relief Following Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02785276. Licensed CC0.

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