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Clinical trialNCT01973452CompletedPhase 3Interventional

Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial of the Postoperative Opioid Sparing Effects of Intraoperative Dexmedetomidine Infusion for Thoracic Surgery

SponsorMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterEnrollment333Pain
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this study is to see if the drug, Dexmedetomidine (also known as Precedex), can reduce pain for patients having Thoracic Surgery and therefore reduce the amount of opioid drug needed after surgery. It is a drug that is already approved by the FDA (Food \& Drug Administration) for use as a sedative in hospitals and is currently used in the investigators Intensive Care Unit for this purpose. The investigators want to investigate if it also has pain relieving properties.
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Investigators

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Sites

4 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at Basking Ridge

    Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk

    Commack, New York, United States

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester

    Harrison, New York, United States

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 1275 York Avenue

    New York, New York, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Dexmedetomidine →Placebo
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 Oct 2013
Primary completion
22 Dec 2022
Completion
22 Dec 2022
Last update posted
20 Feb 2024
Registered enrollment
333
Registry id
NCT01973452
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.