The Effect of Light Therapy on Post-Surgical Pain

Mayo Clinic

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Cardiac Surgery; Intensive Care Unit

Treatments: Device: Green light emitting diode; Device: White light emitting diode

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05853731

22-011669

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers aim to demonstrate that the use of phototherapy is feasible and may reduce acute postoperative pain based on recent literature. The primary objective is to demonstrate that displaying light-emitting diodes [LED] can be achieved in the ICU setting in after cardiac surgery.

Full description

The primary aim of this study to determine whether or not green light phototherapy is feasible after cardiac surgery.

Patients that will be undergoing heart surgery will be recruited to the study. After surgery they will be exposed to either green or white LEDs for up to 5 hours per day and up to one week after surgery.

After their exposure to light therapy, a survey will be given to the patient which will ask questions regarding tolerance of the therapy. A survey will also be given to the staff which will query whether or not the therapy was an impediment to workflow. In addition, the medical record will be reviewed to assess opiate usage in each group as an exploratory aim which may suggest differences in pain experiences.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Status post heart surgery and are admitted in the ICU at Mayo Clinic, Florida.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient with color blindness and/or untreated cataracts.
• Patients who are hemodynamically unstable.
• Patients with dementia/delirium.
• Pregnancy.
• Patient is unwilling to participate or provide informed consent.
• High baseline narcotic baseline requirements that would skew the baseline impact on post-op opiate pain requirements.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Green light therapy group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting after cardiac surgery will have green light therapy via green light emitting diode (GLED) for the duration of the ICU stay or up to 1 week.

Treatment:

Device: Green light emitting diode

Placebo Group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Subjects in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting after cardiac surgery will have filtered white light emitting diodes (WLED) as a placebo for the duration of the ICU stay or up to 1 week.

Treatment:

Device: White light emitting diode