Status:
COMPLETED
Self Medication With Oral Morphine After Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Lead Sponsor:
The Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Collaborating Sponsors:
Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Conditions:
Arthroplasty, Knee Replacement
Pain Control
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
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 sel...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients requiring total knee replacement surgery willing to provide written, informed consent.
Exclusion
- 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.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
144 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01226186
Start Date
October 1 2010
End Date
June 1 2011
Last Update
December 4 2012
Active Locations (1)
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Derwent Unit, Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
Bournemouth, Dorset., United Kingdom, BH7 7DW