An Analgesia Protocol for Acute Renal Colic in the Emergency Department

Dartmouth Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Kidney Stone

Treatments: Drug: Morphine; Drug: Toradol

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00504283

CPHS 20569

Details and patient eligibility

About

An analgesia protocol for acute renal colic will lead to faster significant reductions in pain than prior practice.

Full description

A retrospective study was performed that assessed the time to significant analgesia and medications used to achieve analgesia in the DHMC ED. Based upon this a prospective pain management protocol was designed and we will track the difference in time to significant pain relief between the two groups.

Enrollment: 45 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Kidney stone on stone protocol CT scan
• Acute pain from a kidney stone

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 18 or > 65
• Pregnant women
• Contraindications to NSAID's or opiates

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)