Opiates Prescribing for Knee Arthroscopies and ACL Reconstruction

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Conditions studied: Knee Injuries, ACL Injury

In brief

The purpose of the study is to determine if opiates are required to achieve adequate analgesia after knee arthroscopy and ACL reconstruction in outpatient surgery. The investigators hypothesize that patients are frequently prescribed more opiates than are needed after surgery, resulting in excess medications that are at risk for misuse, diversion and contribution to the opioid epidemic.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03876743

Run by

Northwestern University

People needed

201

Starts

2018-03-26

Expected to finish

2020-07-08

Last updated by the study team

2020-10-14

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 89. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients presenting to Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) or to a Northwestern orthopaedic surgery faculty member's clinic undergoing knee arthroscopy with meniscus repair and/or debridement
• 18 years old or greater
• Ability to read and speak English

You may not qualify if…

• Revision surgery
• Oncologic surgery
• Arthroscopic knee surgery that involves procedures other than ACL or the meniscus (i.e PCL, LCL, MPFL)
• Patients currently taking narcotics, chronic pain management patients, history of substance abuse
• Adults unable to consent
• Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers)
• Pregnant women
• Prisoners
• Patients currently taking narcotics, chronic pain management patients, history of substance abuse

Where it is running

• Northwestern Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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