Impact of the Use of Ketamine in Laparoscopic Surgery.

Quality of Recovery Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of the Impact of the Use of Ketamine in Laparoscopic Surgery, Using the Quality of Recovery 15 Questionnaire.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03724019
• Other study ID #: QuetaminaQOR15
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Start date: October 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: September 2022
• Source: Universidade do Porto
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

In order to improve the postoperative period (namely pain control), several drugs can be used. For instance, ketamine is a general anesthetic that holds strong analgesic properties, yet also owns undesirable effects, in which hallucination phenomena is one the most common indicator. However, slight information is available about the real implication in the quality of the recovery on the use of ketamine for postoperative pain treatment. The quality of the recovery includes several health conditions, such as pain, physical comfort, physical independence, psychological support and emotional state. In recent years, investigations in this field has been attracted the attention by the health professionals, since is an indicator of the quality of post-operative care. To evaluate these parameters, questionnaires have been developed, in which the Portuguese version of Quality of Recovery 15 (QoR-15) is include. This questionnaire evaluates five psychometric dimensions. Therefore, the present study has the main goal, the evaluation of the effect of using ketamine in laparoscopic surgery and the quality of the recovery using the QoR-15 questionnaire.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 127
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: October 1, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients between 18 and 65 years age, with an American Society of Anesthesiology physical status I, II or III.
• Laparoscopic surgery (sleeve gastrectomy, salpingectomy, or cholecystectomy)

Exclusion Criteria:

• patient refusal, the incapacity of providing informed consent, drug abusers (current or past history) or alcohol abuse, medication with benzodiazepines, inability to give informed consent, pregnant, emergency surgery, psychiatric pathology, existence of surgical complications in the recovery and admission to a level II or III unit ( for any reason).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Quality of Recovery

Intervention

Drug:
• Ketamine
Administration of 0.5mg / kg ideal body weight of ketamine at induction of anesthesia in laparoscopic surgery.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Portugal	CHU São João	Porto

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidade do Porto

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Portugal, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Impact in QoR-15 score	Difference (improvement or worsening) in the postoperative baseline score (preoperative) in the Portuguese version of the Quality of Recovery questionnaire 15.	6 months