Effectiveness of a Preoperative Educational Video for Reducing Opioid Consumption After Hand Surgery

Northwestern University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgery; Hand Injuries and Disorders; Opioid Use

Treatments: Other: Educational video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04625868

00211034

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study seeks to determine if watching a preoperative educational video influences opioid consumption and proper disposal following elective hand surgery.

Full description

This study seeks to determine if watching a preoperative educational video influences opioid consumption and proper disposal following elective hand surgery. Patients undergoing elective hand surgery are randomized to either watch a preoperative educational video or not. Patients are asked to record their pain medication usage postoperatively, as well as their daily pain levels and satisfaction with their pain control after surgery.

Enrollment: 119 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• undergoing elective hand surgery
• surgeon is planning to prescribe opioids for postoperative pain control

Exclusion criteria

• emergent surgery
• surgeon not planning to prescribe opioids for postoperative pain control

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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119 participants in 4 patient groups

Soft tissue surgery - preoperative video

Experimental group

Description:

Patients \> 18 years old undergoing elective hand surgery (soft tissue) for which the surgeon is planning to prescribe opioids for postoperative pain control.

Treatment:

Other: Educational video

Soft tissue surgery - no video

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients \> 18 years old undergoing elective hand surgery (soft tissue) for which the surgeon is planning to prescribe opioids for postoperative pain control.

Bone/joint surgery - preoperative video

Experimental group

Description:

Patients \> 18 years old undergoing elective hand surgery (bone/joint) for which the surgeon is planning to prescribe opioids for postoperative pain control.

Treatment:

Other: Educational video

Bone/joint surgery - no video

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients \> 18 years old undergoing elective hand surgery (bone/joint) for which the surgeon is planning to prescribe opioids for postoperative pain control.