A Prospective Study of Post-operative Opioid Use in General Surgery Patients (GSopioids)

Dartmouth Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02782884

D16112

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients undergoing approximately 10 common outpatient general surgical operations will be given a narcotic prescription for a specified number of pills.

Inpatients who are about to be discharged after surgery or trauma will be given narcotic prescriptions for a specified number of pills. Patients will be given a patient report form which they will use to record the number of pills they take each day and their daily pain score on a scale of 0-10.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >= 18 years of age
• undergoing one of 9 elective outpatient operations: partial mastectomy, partial mastectomy and sentinel node biopsy, melanoma wide excision and sentinel node excision, thyroidectomy, parathyroidectomy, open inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic cholecystectomy OR
• an inpatient on the general surgery service who took at least one oral narcotic

Exclusion criteria

• allergic to all narcotics
• chronic opioid use
• history of opioid or benzodiazepine abuse

Trial design

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Outpatient general surgery operation

Description:

Patients undergoing outpatient general surgical operations They will be given a specified number of narcotic pills based on our retrospective analysis of patient post-operative opioid use

Inpatient general surgical patients

Description:

Inpatients who are being discharged They will be given a specified number of narcotic pills based on the number of pills they took in the 24 hrs prior to discharge