Patient Controlled Analgesia Pump Cues on Patient Satisfaction — PCA Cues  

Postoperative Pain Clinical Trial

Official title: The Effect of Patient Controlled Analgesia Pump Cues on Patient Satisfaction

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

To examine whether providing patients with a cue to the availability of pain medication affects patient satisfaction, patient anxiety, PCA efficacy, and safety.

Clinical Trial Description

Post-operative pain is primarily managed via Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA). The newest PCA pumps can be programmed so that the button is backlit with a green light at the end of the lockout period, and the green light flashes when the medication is being dispensed. No studies have examined whether this type of visual cue would influence satisfaction or other patient outcomes (such as opioid consumption, PCA safety and patient anxiety) in children and adolescents, and no studies have examined whether pediatric patients' perspectives would be similar to those of adults. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Pain, Postoperative
• Postoperative Pain

• NCT number: NCT02456909
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Medical College of Wisconsin
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2015
• Completion date: October 3, 2019