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Study aim
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A clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of opioid with opioid-ketamine on pain relief in traumatic patients
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Design
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In clinical trial with a control group and double-blind, eighty traumatic patients were chosen allocated using table of random numbers, community-based and pragmatic as parallel groups.
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Settings and conduct
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Traumatic patients who referred to the emergency department of Besat Hospital, Tehran are chosen as the participants of the study. In this double-blind study, the participants and all of responsible for data collection are unaware of the patient's groups and the type of drug
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: Aged between 15 and 40 years; having a natural intelligence; no speech problem; according to the diagnosis patients with trauma require the analgesic.
Exclusion criteria: Allergy to the drugs studied; having underlying disorder of respiratory, cardiac, neurological; addicted; active psychosis; poisoning clinical.
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Intervention groups
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The control group is receiving 20 mg opioid with distilled water. The intervention group is receiving 10 mg opioid with 0.1 mg/kg ketamine.
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Main outcome variables
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Evaluation and comparison of opioid with opioid-ketamine of pain relief based on the visual analog scale, and side-effects of medications (nausea and vomiting, dizziness, dry mouth, euphoria, skin rash in the area of injection, nystagmus, tinnitus, etc) based on questionnaire before, 15 and 30 minutes after intervention between the control and intervention groups.