Clinical trial NCT01839461: Pharmacogenetic Morphine Spine Study
Official title: Personalizing Perioperative Morphine Analgesia for Adolescents Undergoing Major Spine Surgeries
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Pain
Keywords: Pharmacogenetics
postoperative
pediatric
opioid
perioperative
respiratory depression
chronic pain
Lead sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2013-04-24
Enrollment: 137
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Children ages 10 to 18, inclusive, years scheduled for spinal surgical procedures.

Brief summary: The purpose of this research study is to identify factors and genes (the DNA material that determines the makeup of the human body) that may be associated with how children cope with pain and respond to pain medication. Morphine is a pain medication commonly prescribed after this surgery during the hospital stay. The investigators want to study factors that may be associated with morphine requirement after surgery and side-effects from morphine. They will use pharmacometric models to identify dosing guidelines and factors associated with individual variability in metabolism and efficacy/safety of morphine. They will also study psychological, genetic and epigenetic factors associated with acute and chronic post-surgical pain after spine surgery. The investigators expect that the information obtained in this research study will help to develop effective, safer, and tailored treatment options in the future.

Detailed description: Safe and effective analgesia is an important unmet medical need in children. Despite efforts to promote non-pharmacologic interventions, drug treatment remains the standard of care for children experiencing severe pain following surgery. Inadequate pain relief after invasive surgery, and side effects from analgesics such as morphine occur frequently in up to 50% of children. A study of patient-controlled analgesia morphine use after spine surgery in adolescents observed a 45% incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting 15% incidence of pruritis and 7% incidence of respiratory depression. Among the drugs available, the opioids, specifically morphine is the most commonly employed. Morphine has a narrow therapeutic index, with the most fatal toxicity being respiratory depression. For morphine, like most opioids, there is a fine balance in dosing regimen between optimal pain control and safety in terms of decreasing morphine's respiratory depressant/ sedative side effects. Inadequate pain relief and analgesic side effects have major clinical, behavioral and economic consequences. Neither evidence-based dosing guidelines nor rigorous documentation of therapeutic benefit for morphine has been ascertained in the pediatric patient population. Despite aggressive pain management after spine surgery, findings showed that neither children's pain nor their analgesic use diminished significantly over time. As such, there is a critical knowledge gap in the medical literature that significantly impacts the pediatric pain management. In recognition of this therapeutic challenge the investigators plan to evaluate the determinants of inter-individual differences in opioid analgesic responsiveness and adverse effects in children. Adolescents following spine surgery have a great variability in morphine requirements with greater use as they became older. Analgesic dosing is dependent on appreciation of the interplay between pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and therapeutics. These factors are often poorly understood, where the effective control of procedural pain for example, remains problematic. Suitable pharmacological alternatives to opioid treatment for moderate to severe pain in children after surgery are limited and consequently there is a need for a critical evaluation of the existing opioids and research reports.

Recently a number of small studies have shown the association of single nucleotide polymorphism in genes in the pain pathway, with altered pain response to a stimulus or altered response to opioids following a painful procedure. Age, gender, cultural influences, anxiety, type of surgical procedure and genetic factors can all influence the response. By extending follow up of patients to years after surgery, the aims were amended to include evaluation of chronic post-surgical outcomes.

We will be collecting data on pain scores, opioid effects, psychological questionnaires, blood samples and pupillometry data.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children aged 10 to 18, inclusive, years of age
* Diagnosis of Idiopathic scoliosis, kyphosis and/or kyphoscoliosis
* Scheduled for spine fusion

Exclusion Criteria:

* Known hypersensitivity to morphine
* Patients on chronic pain medication.
* Pregnant or breastfeeding females.
* Children with a history of or active renal or liver disease.
* Concomitant use of medication known to induce or inhibit CYP2D6 activity including paroxetine, fluoxetine, cimetidine, duloxetine or methadone.
* Non-English speaking patients.
* Developmental delay.
* Children who have problems with pupil or pupillary reaction due to disease (such as amyloidosis, bilateral Horner's syndrome, familial dysautonomia, other major neurological disorders) or preoperative medications influencing pupillary size (anti-cholinergic, narcotic medications such as codeine in cough syrup) will be recruited but pupillometry will be deferred.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Immediate postoperative pain scores in the recovery room
timeFrame: 1 day ( Recovery room)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: postoperative intravenous morphine requirement
timeFrame: First 48 hours after surgery
measure: Chronic pain pre-operatively
timeFrame: Pre-operative
measure: Chronic pain post-operatively
timeFrame: 2 - 6 months post-operative
measure: Chronic pain post-operatively
timeFrame: 10 - 12 months post-operative
Other outcomes:
measure: Side-effect measures
timeFrame: First 48 hours post surgery
Locations:
city: Cincinnati
country: United States
facility: Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
name: Vidya Chidambaran, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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