Pain monitor slashes morphine use in Kids' spine surgery
NCT ID NCT04047225
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested a device called ANI that measures pain during surgery in children having scoliosis correction. The goal was to see if using this monitor to guide pain medicine during surgery would lower the amount of morphine needed in the first 24 hours after surgery. The study involved 260 children under 18 years old.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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260 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2020
- Finished
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Dec 2023
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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10 to 17 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age \< 18 years at time of surgery; * Surgical correction of idiopathic scoliosis with or without thoracoplasty; * Weight ≥ 30 kg : in order to allow using target plasma concentration administration of the opioid (remifentanil) and anaesthetic (propofol) agents; (pharmacokinetics models are not validated under this weight) during the intraoperative period; * ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologist) status I to III * Affiliation to the French national health insurance Exclusion Criteria: * Second time of a scoliosis correction in the preceding year (apart the use of halo-gravity traction or non-painful procedures such as digestive endoscopy); * Chronic treatment (\> 3 months) with: opioid agents, anti-epileptic agents or anti-depressant agents; * Bad French language understanding; * Expected difficulties in self-managing pain using the patient-controlled analgesia devices; * ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologist) status IV or V; * Any contraindication to one of the compound of the study: propofol, remifentanil, atracurium, paracetamol, Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents. * Patients with a heart pace-maker device * Patient under anti-arrythmic treatment
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Department of Anesthesiology, Robert Debre University Hospital
Paris, 75019, France
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