Effect of Early Pain Management at Triage on Opioid Consumption

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-09-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

introduction: Pain remains one of the most common reasons of emergency department admission. Opioids are overprescribed in emergency departments to treat severe pain.

objective: assessing the impact of ealy pain pain management on the use of intravenous morphine and on patient satisfaction.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Monastir
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Analgesics, Opioid; Tramadol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• over 18 years of age

• a visual analog scale (VAS) equal to or higher than 30/100 ,

• having given consent to participation

• No contraindications to products used in the course of the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• having a vital distress that does not allow an adequate assessment of the intensity of the pain

• an inability to assess pain intensity according to the VAS,

• swallowing disorders or inability , or a contraindication or an allergy to the treatments used.