Status:

WITHDRAWN

Comparison of Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Versus Bolus Narcotic Therapy for the Treatment of Vaso-Occlusive Crisis (VOC)

Lead Sponsor:

Johns Hopkins University

Conditions:

Sickle Cell Disease

Vaso-occlusive Crisis

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-100 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

This research is being done to find out the best way to give narcotics for pain relief in adults with sickle cell disease and painful crisis. This study is a comparison of two ways of giving narcotics...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Documented sickle cell disease
  • Signed consent in outpatient clinic or during a prior hospitalization
  • 18+ years of age
  • Seen in the ED with sickle cell pain crisis - this will be based on patients chief complaint that they are in a VOC.
  • Requires IV administration of narcotics (has failed oral narcotic therapy at home)
  • Must be 2 weeks since their last randomization on this study.

Exclusion

  • Contraindication to the use of IV narcotics
  • Hypotension with systolic blood pressure (SBP) ≤ 90
  • Respiratory rate ≤9
  • Altered mental status
  • Patient unable to understand how to use the PCA device
  • Patient unwilling to use PCA device
  • Pulse oximeter reading of ≤ 94% on room air
  • Patient is allergic to IV morphine \& hydromorphone \& fentanyl.
  • Patient is allergic to oral hydromorphone \& morphine \& oxycodone
  • Patient has been randomized on this study 3 times before

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2007

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 1 2009

Estimated Enrollment :

Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00711698

Start Date

September 1 2007

End Date

September 1 2009

Last Update

March 24 2017

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Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205