Status:

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Understanding How Methadone Treatment During Surgery Affects Pain Levels and the Need for Pain Medications After Surgery

Lead Sponsor:

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Conditions:

Spinal Surgery

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-75 years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

The researchers are doing this study to find out whether giving methadone during spinal surgery helps manage pain in the first 72 hours after surgery better than other standard pain medications. Parti...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adult patients (between 18-75 years of age) scheduled for extradural spine surgery with instrumentation (greater than or equal to two levels and including minimally invasive) of expected duration ≥ 2 hours
  • Postoperative hospital stay expected to be ≥ 2 nights at the time of consent

Exclusion

  • Use of methadone currently or within the previous 6 weeks
  • Drug misuse history (e.g., ketamine, cocaine, heroin, amphetamine, methamphetamine, MDMA, phencyclidine, lysergic acid, mescaline, psilocybin).
  • Current use of opioid antagonist/partial antagonist (i.e. buprenorphine).
  • Current or past diagnosis of a Major Psychiatric disorder (such as Schizophrenia, dementia, delirium).
  • Patients with a BMI ≥ 36 kg/m2
  • 2nd or 3rd degree heart block as assessed by preoperative EKG.
  • QTc \> 450 msec on preoperative EKG.
  • Documentation of congestive heart failure and/or ejection fraction \< 30% if recorded in the Pre-Operative Record.
  • Contraindication to use of any analgesic medications listed in the ERAS pathways (acetaminophen, gabapentin, celecoxib, IV opioids).
  • Any known hypersensitivity to methadone.
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding.
  • Abnormal liver function tests as related to the MSK guidelines for use of IV acetaminophen: ALT greater than 2 x Upper Limit of Normal (\> 75 U/L)
  • Serum Creatinine \> 1.5 mg/dl
  • Instrumented spine cases of less than 2 levels
  • All non-instrumented spine cases
  • All intradural tumor resections
  • All "take backs" that occur within 72 hours of surgery (wound revisions, hematomas, etc.)

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 6 2022

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 1 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

17 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT05417100

Start Date

June 6 2022

End Date

June 1 2026

Last Update

January 28 2025

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)

New York, New York, United States, 10065