Clinical trialNCT01986946TerminatedPhase 3Interventional

Epidural Analgesia Versus IV Analgesia in Lumbar Spine Fusions

SponsorDuke UniversityEnrollment17Back PainLumbar Spine FusionPain

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Summary

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1. Protocol Title - A Comparison of Epidural Analgesia with Standard Care Following Lumbar Spinal Fusion: A Prospective Randomized Study 2. Purpose of the Study - This prospective randomized study will enroll 200 patients undergoing elective Lumbar Spinal Fusion at Duke University Hospital. The primary objective is to determine the effect of epidural analgesia, as compared with standard care, on post-operative analgesia. Hypothesis: The investigators hypothesize that patients undergoing Lumbar Spinal Fusion surgery with epidural catheter placement will have superior post-operative analgesia compared to patients undergoing standard care.

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Investigators

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Carlos Bagley, MD
Duke University Hospital Department of Neurosurgery
Principal Investigator
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Erin L Manning, MD/PhD
Duke University Hospital Department of Anesthesiology
Principal Investigator
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Sites

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

United States

Duke University Hospital
Durham, North Carolina, United States

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Drugs studied

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Dilaudid

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Registration & key dates

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

Start: 31 Oct 2013
Primary completion: 30 Sept 2015
Completion: 30 Sept 2015
Last update posted: 23 Feb 2017
Registered enrollment: 17
Registry id: NCT01986946

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