Non-Opioid Prescriptions After Arthroscopic Surgery in Canada (NO PAin)

Summary

This is a randomized controlled trial of 200 patients between the ages of 18 and 65 years undergoing outpatient knee or shoulder arthroscopy. Patients will be evaluated clinically at 2 and 6 weeks post-operatively. Patients will be recruited from experienced arthroscopic surgeons at 3 hospital sites in Hamilton, Ontario. All research will be conducted according to international standards of Good Clinical Practice and institutional research policies and procedures.

Timeline

Start

2021-02-24

Primary completion

2022-04-01

Completion

2022-04-01

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper Patients in the opioid-sparing protocol consumed significantly fewer opioids (median, 0 mg; IQR, 0-8.0 mg) than patients in the control group (median, 40.0 mg; IQR, 7.5-105.0; z = -6.55; P < .001). PMID 36194219 ↗

Publications

• NO PAin Investigators; Gazendam A, Ekhtiari S, Horner NS, Simunovic N, Khan M, de Sa DL, Madden K, Ayeni OR. Effect of a Postoperative Multimodal Opioid-Sparing Protocol vs Standard Opioid Prescribing on Postoperative Opioid Consumption After Knee or Shoulder Arthroscopy: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2022 Oct 4;328(13):1326-1335. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.16844.
• NO PAin Investigators. Protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial comparing a non-opioid prescription to the standard of care for pain control following arthroscopic knee and shoulder surgery. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2021 May 22;22(1):471. doi: 10.1186/s12891-021-04354-x.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.