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NCT Number: NCT06828601

Perioperative Lidocaine Infusions for the Management of Pain From Burn Injury

The purpose of this study is to find out if IV lidocaine infusion decreases the need of opioids, improves pain management, and reduces the risks of developing complications from prolonged opioid use in burn injury participants undergoing wound debridement in the operating room.

Participants will:

* be randomized to receive either an IV Lidocaine treatment or an IV Saline Placebo during their surgery. The IV treatment continues for 48 hours after surgery. * be asked about their pain and how they're feeling at 4 timepoints during the 48 hours. * be asked about their pain 2 weeks after surgery.

The participant and medical care providers will both be blinded to what IV treatment is being received.

Researchers will compare the 2 groups to see if IV Lidocaine helps decrease the need of opioids, improves pain management, and reduces the risks of developing complications from prolonged opioid use (this includes opioid tolerance, opioid dependence, and opioid induced hyper-sensitivity to pain).

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Key information

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Acute burn patients
  • 18 years or older
  • <20% Total Body Surface Area
  • Wound debridement surgery scheduled at Harborview Medical Center

Exclusion criteria

  • History of polysubstance use
  • Chronic opioid use (MED>40mg for more than 6 weeks)
  • Cases where the known clinical standard care would be to keep patient intubated postoperatively
  • Cases where the known clinical standard care would avoid IV Lidocaine infusion
  • Allergy to amide local anesthetics
  • Any elevated risk for local anesthetic systemic toxicity as determined by the study team
  • Cardiac arrythmias or cardiovascular instability (e.g. shock)
  • Severe renal or hepatic impairment
  • Pregnancy
  • Local anesthesia will be given by another route (e.g. nerve block)
  • Prisoners
  • Non-English Speaking/reading

Treatment and study plan

IV Lidocaine

Drug

Participant receives IV Lidocaine during surgery. Infusion continues for 48 hours. An initial bolus dose of 1.5 mg/kg ideal body weight (IBW) of IV study infusion will be given at the start of surgery, followed by infusion rate of 2.0 mg/kg/hr IBW intraoperatively.This will be reduced to 1.5 mg/kg/hr IBW postoperatively for 48 hours - once the patient has reached recovery.

IV Saline

Drug

Participant receives IV Saline (placebo) during surgery. Infusion continues for 48 hours. An initial bolus dose of 1.5 mg/kg ideal body weight (IBW) of IV study infusion will be given at the start of surgery, followed by infusion rate of 2.0 mg/kg/hr IBW intraoperatively.This will be reduced to 1.5 mg/kg/hr IBW postoperatively for 48 hours - once the patient has reached recovery.

Primary outcomes

  1. Feasibility of Study for future larger RCT-Recruitment

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 6 months

    Recruitment rate (screening and recruitment of 20 patients over 6 months)

  2. Feasibility of Study for future larger RCT-Preliminary Data

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 6 months

    Review of preliminary data for calculation of a sample size, minimum number of subjects needed to enroll in a future RCT for adequate power.

  3. Feasibility of Study for future larger RCT-Acceptability of Intervention

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 6 months

    Review of randomization and blinding processes, including both patients and clinical provider's experience

  4. Feasibility of Study for future larger RCT-Data collection

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 6 months

    The suitability of the methods for data collection, which are In person visits at 24, 48 & 72hr and likely phone/virtual follow-ups at 2 weeks and 3 months

  5. Feasibility of Study for future larger RCT-Reliability of data

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 6 months

    The reliability of data collected for analysis of analgesic efficacy includes review of numerical pain scores, total morphine equivalent dose (MED), Quality of Recovery Scores (QoR-15), and Brief Pain Inventory (BPI). Analgesic efficacy is expressed as the NNT, the number of patients who need to receive the active drug for one to achieve at least 50% pain relief compared with placebo over a 4-6h treatment period.

  6. Feasibility of Study for future larger RCT-Outcomes

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 6 months

    Review of current Secondary Outcome to determine if appropriate to become Primary Outcomes for future RCT

  7. Feasibility of Study for future larger RCT-Complete Data collection

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 6 months

    Determine completion rate of collected data

Secondary outcomes

  1. Length of Hospital Stay

    Time frame: Up to 50 weeks

    This is calculated from the date admitted to the hospital to the date of hospital discharge.

  2. Adverse effects of lidocaine infusion

    Time frame: 48 hours - During the lidocaine infusion

  3. Total MED

    Time frame: MED assessed at 24-, 48-, and 72-hours post-operatively

    MED=Morphine Equivalent Dose. MED are values that represent the potency of an opioid dose relative to morphine. MED equates the many different opioids into a standard value that is based on morphine and its potency.

  4. Pain Scores

    Time frame: Scores assessed at 24-, 48-, and 72-hours post-operatively

    Pain Scores at rest and at movement provided by participant will be a numerical pain score from 0-10, with 0=no pain and 10-worst pain imaginable.

  5. Quality of Recovery Scores

    Time frame: Assessed 24-, 48-, and 72-hours post-operatively

    The Quality of Recovery-15 (QoR-15) is a patient-reported outcome measurement measuring QoR after surgery and anesthesia. The scale is arbitrary and ranges from 0-150 with 4 severity classes; excellent, good, moderate, and poor recovery.

  6. Brief Pain Inventory (Short Form)

    Time frame: Assessed at 2 weeks post-operatively and at 3 months post-operatively

    The Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form (BPI) is a 9-item self-administered questionnaire which rapidly assesses the severity of pain and it's impact on functioning.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Adrienne James

CONTACT

[email protected]

206-744-4634

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Washington

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Perioperative Lidocaine Infusions for the Management of Pain From Burn Injury: A Pilot Study to Investigate Analgesic and Opioid Sparing Effects

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Feb 14, 2025
Registry last updated
Apr 4, 2025

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