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Filter by:This is a Phase 3 clinical trial to compare the safety and efficacy of SyB P-1501 with the SyB P-1501 placebo for the management of the first 24 hours of post-operative pain.
There is a new form of bupivacaine, called Exparel, which can be injected into the eye socket during surgery and may provide pain relief for up to 72 hours. The purpose of the study is to compare the plain bupivacaine injection to Exparel, to see if one medication works better than the other.
Methadone has several advantages over standard narcotic medications, especially when considering use after a typically painful surgery such as lumbar fusion. Methadone is low cost, has a long half-life, has a convenient dosing schedule, has excellent oral bioavailability, and demonstrates slow onset to withdrawal. The literature comparing methadone to more commonly used post-operative narcotics demonstrates that it manages pain better, sustains consistent plasma concentrations, decreases overall narcotic requirement, results in no additional adverse events, and is safe, even in children, across several studies. Since the standard of care is non-methadone narcotic usage to manage the significant pain of complex spinal surgery cases, it is understandable that methadone could be a desirable alternative to promote sustained pain control and early ambulation in these patients. The goal of this study is to compare the effect of a single dose of methadone administered intraoperatively in enrolled spinal fusion patients to their historical controls given fentanyl and morphine, and determine if more sustained pain control during the first few days after surgery provides a better subjective experience for the patient with less pain, which allows them to ambulate and leave the hospital sooner than patients given a standard regimen.
Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is one of the most painful orthopedic procedures. After TKA surgery, postoperative pain relief may be achieved using a variety of techniques. Integral to recovery and improved outcomes is early ambulation and mobilization. Achieving adequate postoperative pain control while ensuring the ability to ambulate early can be quite challenging. Currently, in our country there has been a call to address prescription opioid use and abuse due to a nationwide opioid epidemic. In light of this, improving our multimodal analgesic protocol will serve to decrease reliance of opioid medications for pain control. Multimodal analgesia is effective in decreasing total opioid consumption postoperatively. Dextromethorphan is a low-affinity noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist. It has a long history of clinical use with an established safety record. Studies have shown that it has a positive effect as an analgesic. In order to see if dextromethorphan will decrease opioid use, this study will look at two patient groups undergoing total knee arthroplasty with the same preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthetic plan with the exception of the addition of dextromethorphan to one groups multimodal analgesic regimen. This study is designed as a double-blinded, randomized, prospective cohort trial.
The objective of the PAIN-STOP trial is to assess the feasibility of a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating NMDA antagonists and IV steroids, as compared to placebo, in decreasing the chances of clinically significant persistent post-surgical pain (PPSP) after video assisted thoracoscopic surgeries (VATS). This is a multi-centre randomized, controlled clinical trial with a 2 x 2 factorial design. The pilot phase of the trial will recruit 48 patients and follow them for 3 months. Patients will be randomized to one of four groups: 1) NMDA active + Steroid placebo; 2) Steroid active + NMDA placebo; 3) NMDA active + Steroid active; 4) NMDA placebo + Steroid placebo.
The goal of this research proposal is to determine if the intraoperative administrative of Ketamine and Magnesium during laparoscopic gynecologic surgery improves postoperative pain in patients on chronic opioid therapy for management of chronic pelvic pain.
This is a prospective, randomized, double-blinded, and placebo-controlled trial comparing oxycodone/acetaminophen prescribed with or without ibuprofen for pain control following open unilateral inguinal hernia repair, with allowed exception of any currently prescribed opioid (codeine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, morphine, methadone, oxymorphone, transdermal fentanyl), which can be continued. The patients will not be allowed to continue any over-the-counter pain medications, such as ibuprofen, naproxen, or acetaminophen containing medications, that were not prescribed by the investigators during this study. Patients not receiving Ibuprofen will be given a placebo pill composed of corn starch. The placebo pill will be formulated into the same shape, size and color as the ibuprofen capsule. Neither the investigators nor the research subjects will know if the subject is receiving a placebo versus Ibuprofen. The subjects will complete pain level and medication diaries, and will be followed for 2 months after their surgery. The research aims to discover the appropriate amount of opioid medication to prescribe to patients undergoing an elective open inguinal hernia repair, and reduce the total opioid dose needed by utilizing ibuprofen in combination. The investigators expect that the subjects who take ibuprofen will use less oxycodone/acetaminophen, and have comparable or lower mean pain levels. This could contribute to reducing the surplus opioids prescribed by physicians after surgery, which can lead to opioid use disorders. This particular procedure is common in men, and the findings have the potential to decrease the symptoms and pain of Active Duty members and DoD beneficiaries who undergo an inguinal hernia repair, and are at risk for prescription drug abuse or dependence.
To compare two methods of post-operative pain management in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty. There is a perception that the periarticular injections may not be as effective in controlling post-operative pain. Both methods are current standard of care. The investigators want to compare the outcomes of each when patients are randomized to one of the methods compared to the other method of post-operative pain control.
With this research the investigators hope to determine the lowest dose of ropivacaine used in transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks that can effectively treat pain in women after cesarean section (c-section).
This is a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial of serratus plane blocks in subjects undergoing outpatient unilateral or bilateral breast surgery. Ninety subjects will be enrolled into the study at presurgical testing. Subjects will be stratified based on surgery type and randomized to receive a serratus plane block with either bupivicaine HCL or placebo. All patients will receive standard intraoperative anesthesia and standard postoperative pain control. The primary endpoint is the amount of opioid administered postoperatively. Secondary endpoints include postoperative pain intensity at timed intervals, amount of opioid administered intraoperatively and postoperatively, incidence of nausea and vomiting, time to discharge and patient satisfaction