An Analgesia Protocol for Acute Renal Colic in the Emergency Department

This study has been completed.

Sponsored by:	Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Information provided by:	Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00504283

Purpose

An analgesia protocol for acute renal colic will lead to faster significant reductions in pain than prior practice.

Condition	Intervention
Kidney Stone	Drug: Toradol Drug: Morphine

Drug Information available for: Ketorolac Ketorolac tromethamine

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Non-Randomized, Open Label, Historical Control, Single Group Assignment
Official Title:	An Analgesia Protocol for Acute Renal Colic in the DHMC Emergency Department

Further study details as provided by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Time to significant pain relief [ Time Frame: Within emergency department ]

Estimated Enrollment:	45
Study Start Date:	February 2007
Study Completion Date:	October 2007

Detailed Description:

A retrospective study was performed that assessed the time to significant analgesia and medications used to achieve analgesia in the DHMC ED. Based upon this a prospective pain management protocol was designed and we will track the difference in time to significant pain relief between the two groups.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years to 65 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Kidney stone on stone protocol CT scan
Acute pain from a kidney stone

Exclusion Criteria:

Age < 18 or > 65
Pregnant women
Contraindications to NSAID's or opiates

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00504283

Locations

United States, New Hampshire
DHMC
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756

Sponsors and Collaborators

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Peter L Steinberg, MD

DHMC dept of Urology

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	CPHS 20569
Study First Received:	July 17, 2007
Last Updated:	October 17, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00504283
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center:

Renal colic, pain, protocol, emergency department

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Morphine
Urinary Calculi
Urolithiasis
Colic
Ketorolac
Pain

Calculi
Urologic Diseases
Emergencies
Kidney Diseases
Ketorolac Tromethamine
Nephrolithiasis
Kidney Calculi

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009