Post Operative Analgesia and Patient Satisfaction

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-06-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To understand how patients perceive the quality of care they receive when given different post-operative analgesic medications. Specifically the investigators want to assess whether patients who receive non-opioid analgesia following surgery endorse appropriate quality and satisfaction with their care compared to those who receive opioid medication.

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

Details

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

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients between the ages of 18 and 89 years of age

• Patients undergoing the following outpatient procedures at a LLUHS associated surgical facility:

• total or partial thyroidectomy

• parathyroidectomy

• parotidectomy

• submandibular gland excision

• neck mass excision

• facial mass excision

• MOHS defect repair

• excision of cutaneous lesions

• Other surgeries may qualify and will be assessed on a case by case basis.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients under 18 years old or older than 89 years old

• Those allergic to Hydrocodone, Acetaminophen, or NSAIDS

• Patients who are pregnant

• Patients with chronic medical conditions including hepatic/renal disease that precludes their ability to utilize the study medications.