Overview

Comparison of Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Versus Bolus Narcotic Therapy for the Treatment of Vaso-Occlusive Crisis (VOC)

Status:
Withdrawn

Trial end date:
2009-09-01

Target enrollment:

Participant gender:

Summary

This research is being done to find out the best way to give narcotics for pain relief in adults with sickle cell disease and painful crisis. This study is a comparison of two ways of giving narcotics. The first way is what occurs now in the Emergency Acute Care Unit (EACU) where patients are given a single intravenous (iv) dose of a narcotic which is repeated by the nurse as needed to control the pain. The second way is to provide a single iv dose of narcotic and then allow the patient to push a button and receive one or more additional doses of narcotic when he/she thinks it is needed. Our hypothesis is that PCA will be a more effective way of controlling pain.

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

Lead Sponsor:

Johns Hopkins University

Treatments:

Analgesics, Opioid
Narcotics