Post-Op Pain Control for Prophylactic Intramedullary Nailing.
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-10-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Nationally, the opioid crisis has become a major epidemic with increasing mortality rates
each year. Orthopedic surgeons routinely prescribe narcotics instead of NSAIDs for post-op
pain control because of risk of delayed healing and nonunion due to NSAID use. Orthopedic
oncology, however, has a unique subset of patients that undergo prophylactic placement of
intramedullary femoral nails. Because no fracture is present, these patients do not rely on
inflammatory healing factors, allowing for post-op NSAID use. This study sets out to
determine the effect of post-op toradol use in addition to opioids compared to solely opioids
in patients undergoing prophylactic nailing of the femur.