Patient Satisfaction With Subdissociative Dose Ketamine Versus Morphine for Emergency Department Pain Control

Completed

Conditions studied: Abdominal Pain

In brief

The proposed research will be a single blinded (patient) randomized controlled prospective trial of adult patients receiving treatment for moderate to severe abdominal pain to test the hypothesis that patient satisfaction with pain control with Ketamine will be comparable to patient satisfaction with pain control using morphine when treating abdominal pain.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04698772

Run by

CHRISTUS Health

People needed

32

Starts

2019-12-19

Expected to finish

2020-11-16

Last updated by the study team

2021-01-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Be at least 18 years of age
• Initial presenting complaint of moderate to severe abdominal pain (five or higher on numerical rating scale [NRS]).
• Subjects will be enrolled into the project one (1) time only.

You may not qualify if…

• Under 18 years of age
• Pregnant patients
• Inability to provide written consent
• Evidence of traumatic brain injury
• Hemodynamic instability
• Procedures involving laryngeal manipulation
• History of laryngeal spasm
• History of adverse reaction to Ketamine or morphine
• Patients will not be excluded if they had received pain medications prior to enrollment (ie. Received pain medication from triage, non-physician provider (NPP), or emergency medical services (EMS) prior to being seen by physician
• History of opioid use in the last week, prescription opioid use, recreational opioid use

Where it is running

• CHRISTUS — Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

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