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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT06387303
Pain Control and Quality of Recovery After Intravenous Methadone Versus Intrathecal Morphine in Major Abdominal Surgery
Moderate to severe postoperative pain is relatively common after major abdominal surgery. It is associated with less than optimal surgical experience, poor quality of recovery, and the development of persistent postsurgical pain. Opioids remain a significant component of postoperative pain management. Side effects of opioids used for the treatment of postoperative pain include constipation, pruritus, nausea, and vomiting. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols involve the utilization of multimodal analgesia. Analgesic techniques used include epidural analgesia, nerve blocks, and Intrathecal (IT) administration of morph ne. IT morphine reduces the postoperative opioid requirement for 18-24 hours after major abdominal surgery and reduces hospital length of stay (LOS) compared with epidural analgesia. A significant number of patients who receive IT morphine still experience moderate to severe postoperative p in. Additionally, many patients refuse the invasive procedure or cannot receive IT morphine due to procedure contraindications, thrombocytopenia, and/or coagulopathy.
Intravenous (IV) methadone has a long analgesic half-life and has N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) properties. It has previously been shown to reduce postoperative opioid requirements, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), and postoperative pain scores in patients who underwent orthopedic, abdominal, complex spine, and cardiac surg ry. Similar findings have been shown in obstetric patients who underwent cesarean delivery under general anesthesia as well as patients who underwent gynecologic surgery. IV methadone has, however, never been compared with IT morphine as a postoperative analgesic.
The hypothesis is that intravenous (IV) methadone is non-inferior to IT morphine in patients who undergo major abdominal surg ry. It offers the advantage of being a noninvasive analgesic modality that may contribute to decreasing opioid consumption during the first 72 hours postoperatively, controlling postoperative pain, and improving the quality of recovery after surgery.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Moderate to severe postoperative pain is relatively common after major abdominal surgery. It is associated with less than optimal surgical experience, poor quality of recovery, and the development of persistent postsurgical pain. Opioids remain a significant component of postoperative pain management. Side effects of opioids used for the treatment of postoperative pain include constipation, pruritus, nausea, and vomiting. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols involve the utilization of multimodal analgesia. Analgesic techniques used include epidural analgesia, nerve blocks, and Intrathecal (IT) administration of morph ne. IT morphine reduces the postoperative opioid requirement for 18-24 hours after major abdominal surgery and reduces hospital length of stay (LOS) compared with epidural analgesia. A significant number of patients who receive IT morphine still experience moderate to severe postoperative p in. Additionally, many patients refuse the invasive procedure or cannot receive IT morphine due to procedure contraindications, thrombocytopenia, and/or coagulopathy.
Intravenous (IV) methadone has a long analgesic half-life and has N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) properties. It has previously been shown to reduce postoperative opioid requirements, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), and postoperative pain scores in patients who underwent orthopedic, abdominal, complex spine, and cardiac surg ry. Similar findings have been shown in obstetric patients who underwent cesarean delivery under general anesthesia as well as patients who underwent gynecologic surgery. IV methadone has, however, never been compared with IT morphine as a postoperative analgesic.
The hypothesis is that intravenous (IV) methadone is non-inferior to IT morphine in patients who undergo major abdominal surg ry. It offers the advantage of being a noninvasive analgesic modality that may contribute to decreasing opioid consumption during the first 72 hours postoperatively, controlling postoperative pain, and improving the quality of recovery after surgery.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Early Phase 1
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Keita Ikeda, PH.D.
- Phone Number: 9195931174
- Email: ki2d@uvahealth.org
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Priyanka Singla, M.D.
- Phone Number: (434) 982-4310
- Email: ps7ey@uvahealth.org
Study Locations
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Virginia
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22908-0710
- University of Virginia
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients with an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physiological status I-III
- Undergoing laparotomy with midline incision
- Body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 45
- Ability to understand and read English
- Willingness and ability to comply with scheduled visits and study procedures
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not able or unwilling to sign consent
- Patients undergoing ambulatory surgery or anticipated to be discharged sooner than 24 hours after surgery
- Patients with chronic pain, requiring daily opioid use at the time of surgery, milligram morphine equivalent (MME) >60 as FDA defines opioid tolerant as 60 MME, long-acting forms of opioids such as fentanyl patch, oxycontin.
- Pregnancy
- Patients requiring emergent surgery
- Any contraindication to neuraxial anesthesia (coagulopathy, localized infection at the site of injection, pre-existing spinal pathology, or peripheral neuropathy)
- length of the QT interval (QTc) >450 on the most recent preoperative electrocardiogram (EKG)
- Prior spinal fusion
- Active or Prior Substance Use Disorder, undergoing active treatment with Medication of Opioid Use Disorder including methadone (once daily dosing), Buprenorphine (any formulation) and Naltrexone
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Intrathecal Morphine
250 mcg Intrathecal Injection prior to incision
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Intrathecal Morphine
Other Names:
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Experimental: Intravenous Methadone
0.2 mg / kg Intravenous delivery prior to incision
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Intravenous Methadone
Other Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Quality of Recovery 15 score
Time Frame: 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours
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The Quality of Recovery-15 (QoR-15) scale is a patient-reported outcome measurement of the quality of recovery after surgery and anesthesia.
The scale ranges from 0 to 150, with a higher score indicating a better quality of recovery.
A score of 0 indicates extremely poor quality of recovery, while a score of 150 indicates excellent quality of recovery.
The QoR-15 score can be classified into four severity classes: excellent, good, moderate, and poor recovery.
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24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours
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Overall Benefits of Analgesic Score
Time Frame: 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours
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The overall benefit of analgesic score (OBAS) is a daily survey that assesses a patient's satisfaction with analgesia, pain intensity, and adverse effects. To compute score, add all scores in items 1-7. Range: [0 - 28]. A low score indicates high benefit
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24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours
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morphine milligram equivalent
Time Frame: 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours
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morphine milligram equivalent is a measurement of a given analgesic effect standardized to a milligram of morphine.
In other words agent X has the same effect as Y milligrams of morphine.
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24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours
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Verbal Rating Scale (VRS) pain scores
Time Frame: 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours
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Verbal Rating Scale (VRS) pain scores use common words to grade pain intensity, such as "mild", "severe", "none", "moderate", or "very severe". The scale can have anywhere from four to 15 descriptors. For example, one scale uses five descriptors: "mild", "distressing", "horrible", "excruciating", and "discomforting". Another scale uses the following descriptors: "very severe", "never", "rarely", "sometimes", "often", "always", "poor", "fair", "good", "very good", "excellent", "not at all", "a little bit", "moderately", "quite a bit", and "extremely". Here are some examples of how a VRS scale might work: 0: Relaxed and comfortable 1-3: Mild discomfort 4-6: Moderate pain 7-10: Severe discomfort or pain 0-0: No pain 6-8: Moderate pain 9-10: Severe pain |
24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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McGill Pain questionnaire score
Time Frame: 42 days, 92 days
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The McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), also known as the McGill Pain Index, is a self-report questionnaire that helps patients describe the quality and intensity of their pain that assesses three components of pain experience: Sensory intensity, Emotional impact, and Cognitive evaluation of pain. The MPQ consists of 20 categories of verbal descriptors, 78 pain-related descriptors, and six words for current pain intensity. The descriptors fall into four major groups: Sensory: 1 to 10 Affective: 11 to 15 Evaluative: 16 Miscellaneous: 17 to 20 Each descriptor has a rank value based on its position in the word set. The sum of the rank values is the pain rating index (PRI). The maximum pain score is 78, and the higher the score, the greater the pain. The MPQ is valid, reliable, and sensitive for measuring cancer pain. |
42 days, 92 days
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Verbal Rating Scale (VRS) pain scores
Time Frame: 42 days, 92 days
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Verbal Rating Scale (VRS) pain scores use common words to grade pain intensity, such as "mild", "severe", "none", "moderate", or "very severe".
The scale can have anywhere from four to 15 descriptors.
For example, one scale uses five descriptors: "mild", "distressing", "horrible", "excruciating", and "discomforting".
Another scale uses the following descriptors: "very severe", "never", "rarely", "sometimes", "often", "always", "poor", "fair", "good", "very good", "excellent", "not at all", "a little bit", "moderately", "quite a bit", and "extremely".
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42 days, 92 days
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Gottschalk A, Durieux ME, Nemergut EC. Intraoperative methadone improves postoperative pain control in patients undergoing complex spine surgery. Anesth Analg. 2011 Jan;112(1):218-23. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181d8a095. Epub 2010 Apr 24.
- Gourlay GK, Wilson PR, Glynn CJ. Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of methadone during the perioperative period. Anesthesiology. 1982 Dec;57(6):458-67. doi: 10.1097/00000542-198212000-00005. No abstract available.
- Murphy GS, Szokol JW, Avram MJ, Greenberg SB, Marymont JH, Shear T, Parikh KN, Patel SS, Gupta DK. Intraoperative Methadone for the Prevention of Postoperative Pain: A Randomized, Double-blinded Clinical Trial in Cardiac Surgical Patients. Anesthesiology. 2015 May;122(5):1112-22. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000633.
- Richlin DM, Reuben SS. Postoperative pain control with methadone following lower abdominal surgery. J Clin Anesth. 1991 Mar-Apr;3(2):112-6. doi: 10.1016/0952-8180(91)90007-a.
- Modesitt SC, Sarosiek BM, Trowbridge ER, Redick DL, Shah PM, Thiele RH, Tiouririne M, Hedrick TL. Enhanced Recovery Implementation in Major Gynecologic Surgeries: Effect of Care Standardization. Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Sep;128(3):457-66. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000001555.
- Bauchat JR, Habib AS. Evidence-based anesthesia for major gynecologic surgery. Anesthesiol Clin. 2015 Mar;33(1):173-207. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2014.11.011. Epub 2014 Dec 31.
- Horlocker TT, Vandermeuelen E, Kopp SL, Gogarten W, Leffert LR, Benzon HT. Regional Anesthesia in the Patient Receiving Antithrombotic or Thrombolytic Therapy: American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Evidence-Based Guidelines (Fourth Edition). Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2018 Apr;43(3):263-309. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000763. No abstract available. Erratum In: Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2018 Jul;43(5):566. Vandermeuelen, Erik [corrected to Vandermeulen, Erik].
- Brandsborg B, Nikolajsen L, Hansen CT, Kehlet H, Jensen TS. Risk factors for chronic pain after hysterectomy: a nationwide questionnaire and database study. Anesthesiology. 2007 May;106(5):1003-12. doi: 10.1097/01.anes.0000265161.39932.e8.
- Kharasch ED. Intraoperative methadone: rediscovery, reappraisal, and reinvigoration? Anesth Analg. 2011 Jan;112(1):13-6. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181fec9a3. No abstract available.
- Russell T, Mitchell C, Paech MJ, Pavy T. Efficacy and safety of intraoperative intravenous methadone during general anaesthesia for caesarean delivery: a retrospective case-control study. Int J Obstet Anesth. 2013 Jan;22(1):47-51. doi: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2012.10.007. Epub 2012 Dec 7.
- Hein A, Rosblad P, Gillis-Haegerstrand C, Schedvins K, Jakobsson J, Dahlgren G. Low dose intrathecal morphine effects on post-hysterectomy pain: a randomized placebo-controlled study. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2012 Jan;56(1):102-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2011.02574.x.
- Mancini I, Lossignol DA, Body JJ. Opioid switch to oral methadone in cancer pain. Curr Opin Oncol. 2000 Jul;12(4):308-13. doi: 10.1097/00001622-200007000-00006.
- Slotkin TA, Seidler FJ, Whitmore WL. Methadone inhibits serotonin and norephinephrine uptake into rat brain synaptosomes and synaptic vesicles in vitro but not in vivo. Eur J Pharmacol. 1978 Jun 15;49(4):357-62. doi: 10.1016/0014-2999(78)90309-6.
- Machado FC, Palmeira CCA, Torres JNL, Vieira JE, Ashmawi HA. Intraoperative use of methadone improves control of postoperative pain in morbidly obese patients: a randomized controlled study. J Pain Res. 2018 Oct 2;11:2123-2129. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S172235. eCollection 2018.
- Bergstrom JE, Scott ME, Alimi Y, Yen TT, Hobson D, Machado KK, Tanner EJ 3rd, Fader AN, Temkin SM, Wethington S, Levinson K, Sokolinsky S, Lau B, Stone RL. Narcotics reduction, quality and safety in gynecologic oncology surgery in the first year of enhanced recovery after surgery protocol implementation. Gynecol Oncol. 2018 Jun;149(3):554-559. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2018.04.003. Epub 2018 Apr 13.
- Krantz MJ, Martin J, Stimmel B, Mehta D, Haigney MC. QTc interval screening in methadone treatment. Ann Intern Med. 2009 Mar 17;150(6):387-95. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-150-6-200903170-00103. Epub 2009 Jan 19.
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Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Pathologic Processes
- Postoperative Complications
- Pain
- Neurologic Manifestations
- Pain, Postoperative
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Central Nervous System Depressants
- Peripheral Nervous System Agents
- Analgesics
- Sensory System Agents
- Analgesics, Opioid
- Narcotics
- Respiratory System Agents
- Antitussive Agents
- Morphine
- Methadone
Other Study ID Numbers
- HSR230492
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
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