Optimizing the Use of Ketamine to Reduce Chronic Postsurgical Pain

PHASE3Active, not recruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

765

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 4, 2022

Primary Completion Date

May 28, 2025

Study Completion Date

August 31, 2026

Conditions
Chronic Postsurgical Pain
Interventions
DRUG

Continuous ketamine infusion

Continuous ketamine infusion (0.35 mg/kg after induction, followed by 0.25 mg/kg/hr until 2 hours after surgery) plus saline IV dose in post-anesthesia care unit

DRUG

Ketamine + Saline

Saline dose and infusion intraoperatively, then single-dose IV ketamine (0.60 mg/kg) in post-anesthesia care unit plus 2 hours of saline administration after surgery

OTHER

Placebo

Placebo, Saline dose and infusion intraoperatively, then saline IV dose in post-anesthesia care unit plus 2 hours of saline administration after surgery

Trial Locations (14)

10016

NYU Langone Health (Tisch Hospital, Kimmel Pavilion), New York

10032

New York Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York

10065

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

10467

Montefiore Medical Center - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx

15213

University of Pittsburgh - Magee Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh

35233

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham

55905

Mayo Clinic, Rochester

60612

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

63110

Washington University at St. Louis Medical Center, St Louis

72205

University of Arkansas, Little Rock

75390

University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

77030

University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

98195

University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle

02467

Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard University, Chestnut Hill

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

lead

NYU Langone Health

OTHER