Efficacy Study of Ketamine for Postoperative Pain in Opioid Dependent Patients

Completed · Phase 4 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Postoperative Pain

In brief

Patients who are dependent on opioids often have poor pain relief after major surgery. This study tests the hypothesis that adding intravenous ketamine to a postoperative regimen of intravenous opioids for postoperative pain will improve pain relief in this subset of patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01591382

Run by

Brigham and Women's Hospital

People needed

64

Starts

2008-09-01

Expected to finish

2012-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Chronic pain > 6 months
• Long term use of opioids
• Major surgery

You may not qualify if…

• Use of regional anesthetic techniques
• No need for intravenous (IV) patient controlled analgesia (PCA) after surgery

Where it is running

• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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