Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial of the Postoperative Opioid Sparing Effects of Intraoperative Dexmedetomidine Infusion for Thoracic Surgery
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Official title
A Double-Masked Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial of the Postoperative Opioid Sparing Effects of Intraoperative Dexmedetomidine Infusion for Thoracic Surgery
Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to see if the drug, Dexmedetomidine (also known as Precedex), can reduce pain for patients having Thoracic Surgery and therefore reduce the amount of opioid drug needed after surgery. It is a drug that is already approved by the FDA (Food \& Drug Administration) for use as a sedative in hospitals and is currently used in the investigators Intensive Care Unit for this purpose. The investigators want to investigate if it also has pain relieving properties.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01973452
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 333 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 21 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 2013 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Dec 22, 2022 (Actual)
- Completion
- Dec 22, 2022 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Feb 20, 2024
2013 – 2022
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 4
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 4
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at Basking Ridge | Basking Ridge | New Jersey | — | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk | Commack | New York | 11725 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester | Harrison | New York | 10604 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 1275 York Avenue | New York | New York | 10065 | — |
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- Last update posted Feb 20, 2024 · Synced Oct 1, 2026
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