Vital-signs-integrated Patient-assisted Intravenous Opioid Analgesia

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This is a closed-loop system which is embodied in a novel and intelligent algorithm that takes into account patients' vital signs. The system allows better and responsive titration of personalized pain relief together with non-invasive physiological monitoring that measures oxygenation, breathing and heart rate continuously.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: KK Women's and Children's Hospital
• Treatments: Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 21-70 years old, female

• Healthy participants who are American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 1 and 2 (with well controlled medical problems)

• Undergoing elective surgery with the intent of using postoperative PCA with morphine for postoperative analgesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy to morphine

• With significant respiratory disease and obstructive sleep apnea

• Unwilling to place oxygen saturation monitoring devices during study period

• Unable to comprehend the use of patient controlled analgesia

• Pregnant