Conditions: Pain Relief Adverse Events
Keywords: helicopter aeromedical pain relief analgesia fentanyl morphine adverse events
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 204
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The study is exempt from informed consent by the MetroHealth Medical Center institutional review board (IRB), because two standards of care are used and there is no increased clinical risk to the patient due to the study. The researchers randomize either fentanyl or morphine to be given to trauma patients and record how their pain scale is treated along with observing for adverse events. They are looking to see if the hypothesized benefits of fentanyl (which is much more expensive than morphine) actually exist.

Detailed description:
Periodic reports are made to the IRB.

Arms:
arm 1: Morphine given to trauma patients transported by helicopter arm 2: Fentanyl given to trauma patients transported by helicopter

Interventions: intervention 1: either fentanyl or morphine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: either morphine 4mg IV or fentanyl 50mcg IV

Protocol document: