Multi-dose Acetaminophen for Patients Undergoing General Anesthesia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Study Objective The aim of the proposed study is to examine the effect of Q4 hour multidose IV acetaminophen on patients' readiness for discharge. In doing so the investigators will also investigate the various factors that could potentially contribute to a patient's readiness for discharge such as overall opioid consumption, time to rescue medication, incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting, pain scores, and perioperative stress markers and their overall correlation with IV acetaminophen intake.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Collaborator: Mallinckrodt
• Treatments: Acetaminophen

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Undergoing ambulatory laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 1, 2 or 3.-

Exclusion Criteria -

• Cognitively impaired (by history) and unable or unwilling to consent

• Chronic steroid or opioid user (as prescribed for a chronic systemic illness)

• Parturient or nursing mother. Patients who have been informed by a physician that they have liver or kidney disease