NCT02456909

Patient Controlled Analgesia Pump Cues on Patient Satisfaction

The Effect of Patient Controlled Analgesia Pump Cues on Patient Satisfaction

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 176 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To examine whether providing patients with a cue to the availability of pain medication affects patient satisfaction, patient anxiety, PCA efficacy, and safety.

Detailed description

Post-operative pain is primarily managed via Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA). The newest PCA pumps can be programmed so that the button is backlit with a green light at the end of the lockout period, and the green light flashes when the medication is being dispensed. No studies have examined whether this type of visual cue would influence satisfaction or other patient outcomes (such as opioid consumption, PCA safety and patient anxiety) in children and adolescents, and no studies have examined whether pediatric patients' perspectives would be similar to those of adults.

Conditions

• Postoperative Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Patient-Controlled Analgesia pump with Cues	The end of the lockout period will be cued via the PCA pump
DEVICE	Patient-Controlled Analgesia pump without Cues	The PCA pump will be programmed such that no cues will be provided to the end of the lockout period.
DRUG	Morphine	Morphine will be administered for post-operative pain in both the Cues and Non-Cues groups

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-04-01
• Primary completion: 2019-10-03
• Completion: 2019-10-03
• First posted: 2015-05-29
• Last updated: 2021-09-08
• Results posted: 2021-09-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States