Steroids After Spine Fusion Surgery
This study is looking at whether giving a low dose of steroids (Prednisone or Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate) after spine fusion surgery helps patients recover. Researchers want to see if these steroids can reduce pain medication use, shorten your hospital stay, and help your bowels start working sooner after surgery. You could join if you are over 50 and having thoracic (upper back) or lumbar (lower back) spine fusion surgery. You cannot join if you are already taking steroids, are pregnant, or cannot make your own medical decisions. The study is currently unclear about its recruitment status.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study with a planned enrollment of 420 participants. Participants will be randomly assigned to receive either the steroid medication or no treatment after surgery.
- What's involved
- If you are in the study drug group, you will take 20 mg of Prednisone (or Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate if you can't take pills) on the first two days after surgery.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your pain medication use, hospital stay, and time to first bowel movement will be measured from after surgery until discharge, up to 4 weeks.
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Steroids After Spine Fusion Surgery
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Jung U Yoo, MD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
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What this trial measures
- Morphine equivalent pain medication use over the length of hospitalizationFrom postoperative admission to discharge, up to 4 weeks
This will be measured by converting the dosage of the pain medication administered to its equivalent dosage of morphine.
- Length of hospital stay after surgeryFrom postoperative admission to discharge, up to 4 weeks
This will be measured by taking the total minutes the patient stays in the hospital after surgery from time of admission to time of discharge.
- Time to first bowel movement in hospital after surgeryFrom postoperative admission to discharge, up to 4 weeks
This will be measured in the total number of minutes from admission after surgery that it takes for the patient to have their first bowel movement recorded.
- Number of major complications reported during hospital stay after surgeryFrom postoperative admission to discharge, up to 4 weeks
This will be measured in the total number of major complications (any) that occur during the hospital stay after surgery. These include, infection, neurological deficit, myocardial infarction, stroke, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, and bleeding.
- Morphine equivalent pain medication use over the first 48 hours of hospitalizationFrom postoperative admission to 48 hours after
This will be measured by converting the dosage of the pain medication administered to its equivalent dosage of morphine.