Self Medication With Oral Morphine After Total Knee Arthroplasty.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Arthroplasty, Knee Replacement; Pain Control
• Interventions: Behavioral: Nurse dispensed oral morphine.; Behavioral: Patient self medication of oral morphine.

• Registration Number: NCT01226186
• Lead Sponsor: The Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Brief Summary

The study aims to compare two post operative pain management strategy's, traditional nurse dispensed pain control versus patient self medication. The investigators aim to establish if patients who self medicate have differing pain levels than those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-10
• Study First Submitted: 2010-10-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-10-21
• Study First Posted: 2010-10-22
• Primary Completion: 2011-06
• Study Completion: 2011-06
• Status Verified: 2012-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-12-03
• Last Update Posted: 2012-12-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 144

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients requiring total knee replacement surgery willing to provide written, informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

• Unable to safely self medicate.

Allergy to morphine.

Unable to provide consent.

Contraindication to the standardised anaesthetic or standard postoperative care.

Not consenting to an element of the standardised anaesthetic.

Pre-operative use of strong opiates e.g. Oramorph, MST, Oxynorm.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Nurse dispensed oral morphine solution.	Nurse dispensed oral morphine.	-
Self medicated oral morphine solution.	Patient self medication of oral morphine.	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To establish if patients who self medicate with oral morphine have differing pain levels than those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.	one year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To identify if patients who self medicate with oral morphine take a significantly different amount of morphine compared with those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.	one year
To compare whether patients who self medicate with oral morphine have a significantly altered level of side effects compared with those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.	one year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Derwent Unit, Royal Bournemouth Hospital.; 🇬🇧 Bournemouth., Dorset., United Kingdom