Status:

COMPLETED

A Comparison of Ketamine Infusion Versus Placebo in Opioid Tolerant and Opioid Naive Patients After Spinal Fusion

Lead Sponsor:

NYU Langone Health

Conditions:

Spinal Fusion

Eligibility:

All Genders

16+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

The aim of the proposed study is to examine the effectiveness of low dose postoperative ketamine infusion as an analgesic adjuvant to morphine pca in opioid tolerant and opioid naïve patients after ma...

Detailed Description

Subjects aged 16 to 75, ASA I to III, scheduled for an elective lumbar fusion surgery of at least two levels under general anaesthesia, were prospectively studied. We defined opioid-tolerant as the da...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adult and teenage (\>/=16) male or female who will undergo surgery for multilevel (\>4 level) spinal fusion from a posterior approach with general anesthesia, and who are fluent English speakers such that they can complete the pain score and satisfaction questionnaires whose scores are a critical outcome variable.
  • If female, subject is non-lactating and is either:
  • Not of childbearing potential
  • Of childbearing potential but is not pregnant at time of baseline as determined by pre-surgical pregnancy testing.
  • Subject is ASA physical status 1, 2, or 3.

Exclusion

  • anxiety
  • psychiatric disorder
  • Allergy or sensitivity to ketamine or dilaudid
  • Deemed un-acceptable by study team
  • Cognitively impaired (by history)
  • Subject requires chronic antipsychotic medication
  • Subject known to be in liver failure
  • Subject for whom opioids or ketamine are contraindicated
  • Patients with narrow angle glaucoma
  • Patients with a history of psychosis

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 1 2012

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 1 2017

Estimated Enrollment :

129 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03274453

Start Date

November 1 2012

End Date

September 1 2017

Last Update

June 14 2018

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New York University School of Medicine

New York, New York, United States, 10016