Multimodal Sleep Pathway for Shoulder Arthroplasty

Advancing the Multimodal Pathway: Investigating the Use of Sleep and Zolpidem in the Recovery After Shoulder Arthroplasty

The purpose of the study is to investigate the efficacy of sleep medicine in the recovery of orthopaedic shoulder arthroplasty patients. The investigators hypothesize that a multimodal sleep pathway including non-pharmacological sleep hygiene interventions and the use of zolpidem can improve patient sleep, pain control, and subsequent recovery after undergoing total shoulder arthroplasty.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sleep Disturbance; Arthroplasty Complications; Perioperative/Postoperative Complications; Shoulder Arthritis
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Zolpidem

Detailed Description

Shoulder pain at night is a common symptom of shoulder arthritis and contributes to sleep disturbances. Many patients also have difficulty sleeping after shoulder surgery due to the constraints of sling immobilization. While in the hospital, sleep is also disrupted due to pain, nursing staff, other patients, and bathroom use. While poor sleep may appear trivial, sleep deprivation in animal models has identified significant adverse effects on bone metabolism, bone mass, and recovery from post surgical pain.

Recent evidence has shown that non-pharmacological sleep interventions that improve sleep hygiene and duration can optimize athletic peak performance, fatigue, and recovery. Furthermore, pharmacological sleep aid use with zolpidem in orthopaedic postoperative patients has suggested safe administration, improved pain control, reduced pain medication use, and higher patient satisfaction in the settings of total knee and hip arthroplasty, rotator cuff repairs, and ACL reconstruction.

The purpose of the study is to investigate the efficacy of sleep medicine in the recovery of orthopaedic shoulder arthroplasty patients. The investigators hypothesize that a multimodal sleep pathway including non-pharmacological sleep hygiene interventions and the use of zolpidem can improve patient sleep, pain control, and subsequent recovery after undergoing total shoulder arthroplasty.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 122
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
      • UCSF

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

All consenting adults undergoing elective total shoulder replacement

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Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergies to zolpidem or refusal to participate in study

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control; Current practice of postoperative care without sleep medicine measures
Experimental: Interventional Sleep Medicine; Use of a multimodal sleep pathway including non-pharmacological sleep hygiene interventions and the use of zolpidem to improve patient sleep, pain control, and subsequent recovery after undergoing total shoulder arthroplasty.	Drug: Zolpidem; Addition of both non-pharmacologic nursing directed sleeping hygiene practices with pharmacologic zolpidem to improve sleep latency; Other Names: Nursing sleep medicine protocol

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Lead's Sleep scale	Patient reported outcome	postoperative day 1

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Sleep journals	patient reported outcome	postoperative day 1-7
Pain scores	]pain scores	postoperative day 1

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Krenk L, Jennum P, Kehlet H. Sleep disturbances after fast-track hip and knee arthroplasty. Br J Anaesth. 2012 Nov;109(5):769-75. doi: 10.1093/bja/aes252. Epub 2012 Jul 24.
• Dolan R, Huh J, Tiwari N, Sproat T, Camilleri-Brennan J. A prospective analysis of sleep deprivation and disturbance in surgical patients. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2016 Jan 6;6:1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2015.12.046. eCollection 2016 Mar.
• Cho CH, Lee SW, Lee YK, Shin HK, Hwang I. Effect of a sleep aid in analgesia after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. Yonsei Med J. 2015 May;56(3):772-7. doi: 10.3349/ymj.2015.56.3.772.
• Chouchou F, Khoury S, Chauny JM, Denis R, Lavigne GJ. Postoperative sleep disruptions: a potential catalyst of acute pain? Sleep Med Rev. 2014 Jun;18(3):273-82. doi: 10.1016/j.smrv.2013.07.002. Epub 2013 Sep 24.
• Gong L, Wang Z, Fan D. Sleep Quality Effects Recovery After Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)--A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Study. J Arthroplasty. 2015 Nov;30(11):1897-901. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2015.02.020. Epub 2015 Feb 24.
• Krenk L, Jennum P, Kehlet H. Postoperative sleep disturbances after zolpidem treatment in fast-track hip and knee replacement. J Clin Sleep Med. 2014 Mar 15;10(3):321-6. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.3540.
• Mah CD, Mah KE, Kezirian EJ, Dement WC. The effects of sleep extension on the athletic performance of collegiate basketball players. Sleep. 2011 Jul 1;34(7):943-50. doi: 10.5665/SLEEP.1132.
• Mulligan EP, Brunette M, Shirley Z, Khazzam M. Sleep quality and nocturnal pain in patients with shoulder disorders. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2015 Sep;24(9):1452-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2015.02.013. Epub 2015 Apr 1.
• Tompkins M, Plante M, Monchik K, Fleming B, Fadale P. The use of a non-benzodiazepine hypnotic sleep-aid (Zolpidem) in patients undergoing ACL reconstruction: a randomized controlled clinical trial. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2011 May;19(5):787-91. doi: 10.1007/s00167-010-1368-x. Epub 2011 Jan 21.
• Wang PK, Cao J, Wang H, Liang L, Zhang J, Lutz BM, Shieh KR, Bekker A, Tao YX. Short-Term Sleep Disturbance-Induced Stress Does not Affect Basal Pain Perception, but Does Delay Postsurgical Pain Recovery. J Pain. 2015 Nov;16(11):1186-99. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2015.07.006. Epub 2015 Sep 3.
• Xu X, Wang L, Chen L, Su T, Zhang Y, Wang T, Ma W, Yang F, Zhai W, Xie Y, Li D, Chen Q, Fu X, Ma Y, Zhang Y. Effects of chronic sleep deprivation on bone mass and bone metabolism in rats. J Orthop Surg Res. 2016 Aug 2;11(1):87. doi: 10.1186/s13018-016-0418-6.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): February 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 30, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 30, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): September 1, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 27, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 26, 2020
• Last Verified: May 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Pathologic Processes; Nervous System Diseases; Sleep Wake Disorders; Dyssomnias; Parasomnias; Postoperative Complications; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Neurotransmitter Agents; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Central Nervous System Depressants; Hypnotics and Sedatives; GABA Agents; Sleep Aids, Pharmaceutical; GABA-A Receptor Agonists; GABA Agonists; Zolpidem
• Other Study ID Numbers: 16-20346

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: Yes