NCT01226186

Self Medication With Oral Morphine After Total Knee Arthroplasty.

Self Medication With Oral Morphine After Total Knee Arthroplasty. A Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing Self Medication With Standard Nurse Dispensing. Is There a Difference in Morphine Consumption, Pain, Patient Satisfaction or Safety?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 144 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Royal Bournemouth Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Arthroplasty, Knee Replacement
• Pain Control

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nurse dispensed oral morphine.	Nurse will dispense oral morphine on request from the patient.
BEHAVIORAL	Patient self medication of oral morphine.	Patients will self medicate their oral morphine pain control solution following surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-10-01
• Primary completion: 2011-06-01
• Completion: 2011-06-01
• First posted: 2010-10-22
• Last updated: 2012-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom