The Utility of a Dichotomous Pain Scale in Reducing Postoperative Opioids Consumption in Outpatient ACL Surgery: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Enrolling By Invitation
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
- Enrollment
- 130
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Amount of opioid medication used post-operatively for 14 days
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to compare opioid consumption among patients who receive a binary pain scale compared to those who receive a standard 10-point pain scale after undergoing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Undergoing ACL reconstruction surgery at Stanford Sports Medicine Redwood City, with autograft or allograft, with or without concomitant meniscal repair.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Pregnant women
- •Surgical history of the operated knee
- •Known allergy to opioid medications
- •Received extra-routine pain care (as compared with the average ACL patients at the Sports Medicine division) given by the anesthesiologists, such as the postoperative epidural analgesia or the ultra-sound guided femoral nerve block.
Arms & Interventions
10-point pain scale
participants undergoing ACL reconstructive surgery are asked to use a 10-point NPRS pain scale to describe their pain post-operatively
Intervention: Numerical Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) (Other)
Binary pain questionnaire
Participants undergoing ACL reconstructive surgery are asked to describe their pain as tolerable or intolerable post-operatively
Intervention: Binary pain questionnaire (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Amount of opioid medication used post-operatively for 14 days
Time Frame: 14 days post-surgery
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Todd Alamin
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Stanford University