Patient Narcotic Requirements After Outpatient Otolaryngology Procedures

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2019-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Patient's pain level and narcotic requirements will be evaluated after routine outpatient Otolaryngology procedures. This will be done by having study participants record their pain level and medication usage from home.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Loma Linda University
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Acetaminophen, hydrocodone drug combination; Hydrocodone; Ibuprofen; Narcotics; Oxycodone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients undergoing one of the following outpatient procedure:

• Septoplasty

• Unilateral or Bilateral Functional endoscopic sinus surgery

• Tympanomastoidectomy

• Tympanoplasty

• Total or Partial Thyroidectomy

• Parathyroidectomy

• Parotidectomy.

• Age >18 years and < 89 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age < 18 years or > 89 years

• Post operative hospital admission

• Allergy to Hydrocodone

• Allergy or contraindication to Ibuprofen or NSAIDs

• Pregnancy

• Hepatic disease

• Chronic kidney disease

• Sickle cell anemia