This study will compare pain management strategies for patients hospitalized with acute pancreatitis. Standard of care pain management will be compared to standard of care plus intravenous ketorolac.
Patients hospitalized for acute pancreatitis and admitted to an internal medicine team will be eligible for study. Patients enrolled will be blindly randomized to receive open-label pain management of standard of care or standard of care plus intravenous ketorolac. Patients will be enrolled between hour 24 and 48 of hospitalization.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
intravenous ketorolac 30 mg every 6 hours
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Opioid use during study enrollment
oral morphine equivalents (OME)
Time frame: day 1 to day 5 of study
Day-to-day oral morphine equivalents
Compare opioid use in each day of study
Time frame: day 1 to day 5 of study
Duration of intravenous opioid use
compare duration of need for IV opioids and transition to oral opioids
Time frame: During hospital admission
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