Actively Recruiting
Patient Controlled Administration of Liquid Acetaminophen
Led by Yale University · Updated on 2025-10-29
24
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
53 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This is a proof of concept pilot study investigating the feasibility and acceptability of patient controlled oral medication administration, using the commonly used and low risk medication in the hospital, oral acetaminophen.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Patient Controlled Administration of Liquid Acetaminophen
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Adult patients older than 18 years old admitted for total shoulder or reverse total shoulder arthroplasty
- Nurses who will administer acetaminophen to a study patient
You will not qualify if you...
- Pregnant patients
- Patients unable to swallow pills or take liquids due to risk of aspiration
- Emergency surgery patients
- Patients with chronic pain
- Patients on home opioids or other pain-modulating medications including benzodiazepine, Neurontin, or ketamine
- History of substance abuse disorder including alcohol or marijuana misuse
- History of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, or cognitive dysfunction
- Patients unable to provide informed consent on their own
- Liver dysfunction limiting safe oral acetaminophen use
- Baseline hyperbilirubinemia (e.g., chronic liver disease, Gilbert's syndrome)
- Patients unable to take medications by mouth
- Patients with neurologic, neuromuscular, or movement disorders unable to drink from a cup
- Nurses not involved in direct care of study patients or uncomfortable with setting up the patient-controlled analgesia pump
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Yale New Haven Hospital at St. Raphael's Campus
New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
J
Jinlei Li, MD, PhD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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