Retrospective Evaluation of Ketamine Effectiveness for the Treatment of Acute Battlefield Related Pain

Completed

Conditions studied: Pain, Acute, Analgesia, Amputation, Traumatic, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, Brain

In brief

Using a retrospective review of records, we will conduct a multivariate analysis to examine the relationship between exposure to ketamine, as an analgesic agent in combat related trauma care, the use of additional opioid pain medications, and patient reported pain levels.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04057989

Run by

Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management

People needed

80

Starts

2014-08-01

Expected to finish

2017-08-30

Last updated by the study team

2019-08-15

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Battlefield injured from January 2007 to December 2013
• Prescribed a ketamine infusion for acute pain
• Awake, alert (non intubated/sedated), and able to report pain scores 24 hours prior to the start of infusion and up to 48 hours following infusion

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who did not receive an injury in theater and did not receive ketamine while being treated by the APS or WRNMMC/WRAMC hospital staff
• No continuous perineural catheter or epidural placement while on ketamine infusion
• Less than 18 years old

Where it is running

• Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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