Self Medication With Oral Morphine After Total Knee Arthroplasty.

NCT ID: NCT01226186

Last Updated: 2012-12-04

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

144 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-10-31

Study Completion Date

2011-06-30

Brief Summary

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The study aims to compare two post operative pain management strategy's, traditional nurse dispensed pain control versus patient self medication. The investigators aim to establish if patients who self medicate have differing pain levels than those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Arthroplasty, Knee Replacement Pain Control

Keywords

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Knee replacement Pain control Self medication

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Nurse dispensed oral morphine solution.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Nurse dispensed oral morphine.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Nurse will dispense oral morphine on request from the patient.

Self medicated oral morphine solution.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Patient self medication of oral morphine.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patients will self medicate their oral morphine pain control solution following surgery.

Interventions

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Nurse dispensed oral morphine.

Nurse will dispense oral morphine on request from the patient.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patient self medication of oral morphine.

Patients will self medicate their oral morphine pain control solution following surgery.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients requiring total knee replacement surgery willing to provide written, informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

* Unable to safely self medicate.

Allergy to morphine.

Unable to provide consent.

Contraindication to the standardised anaesthetic or standard postoperative care.

Not consenting to an element of the standardised anaesthetic.

Pre-operative use of strong opiates e.g. Oramorph, MST, Oxynorm.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

The Royal Bournemouth Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jonathan Linton, Doctor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Locations

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Derwent Unit, Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Bournemouth, Dorset., United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

Other Identifiers

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10/H0505/77

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id