The Utility of a Dichotomous Pain Scale in Reducing Postoperative Opioids Consumption in Outpatient ACL Surgery: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- Enrolling By Invitation
- 入组人数
- 130
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Amount of opioid medication used post-operatively for 14 days
研究概览
简要总结
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Undergoing ACL reconstruction surgery at Stanford Sports Medicine Redwood City, with autograft or allograft, with or without concomitant meniscal repair.
排除标准
- •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.
研究组 & 干预措施
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
干预措施: 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
干预措施: Binary pain questionnaire (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Amount of opioid medication used post-operatively for 14 days
时间窗: 14 days post-surgery
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Todd Alamin
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Stanford University