Patient Controlled Analgesia Pump Cues on Patient Satisfaction

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-10-03
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To examine whether providing patients with a cue to the availability of pain medication affects patient satisfaction, patient anxiety, PCA efficacy, and safety.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin
• Collaborator: Children's Hospital and Health System Foundation, Wisconsin
• Treatments: Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 7-18 years

• Opioid naïve

• Scheduled for a surgery for which a PCA is routinely used for post-operative pain management

• At least 1 parent speaks English

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior experience with PCA

• Cognitive delay precluding independent use of the PCA button

• Current use of anxiolytics or antidepressants

• Patients receiving epidural analgesia