Optimal Dose of Prophylactic Naloxone in Reducing Opioid-Induced Side Effects in Children/Adolescents
Completed · Phase 2
Conditions studied: Pain, Nausea, Pruritus
In brief
This is an investigator initiated dose finding study designed to determine the optimal dose of naloxone to prevent or minimize the most common side effects induced by opioids, namely itching, nausea, and vomiting. Male and female inpatients of the Children's Center of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, who are greater than 6 and less than 18 years of age with acute, moderate to severe pain, and who are to be treated with intravenous Patient controlled analgesia (IVPCA) morphine will be eligible for inclusion in this study. Patients will be recruited by a study investigator prior to the initiation of IVPCA therapy. The majority of patients will be post operative patients, and will start therapy and the investigational drug in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit or the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The investigators plan on studying between 10 and 99, male and female patients over a 2 year period.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00330343
- Run by
- Johns Hopkins University
- People needed
- 75
- Starts
- 2004-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-07-19
Who can join
Age: 7 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Male and female patients greater than 6 and less than 18 years of age with acute, moderate to severe pain who are to start treatment with IVPCA morphine as inpatients of the Children's Center of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
You may not qualify if…
- patients who require concomitant benzodiazepine administration
- allergic to opioids
- have been in an investigational drug trial within 1 month
- received opioids with in 7 days of the study
- parent with psychiatric illness which impairs their ability to provide consent parent who does not speak English
Where it is running
- John Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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