Request for Funding

Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2002

Mentor: PM Brown and G P Joshi
Department: Anesthesiology and pain management
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Mail Code: 9068
Phone number: 214 590 8221
E-mail: Philip.brown@utsouthwestern.edu
Project title: Analgesic Effects of Low-dose Nalmefene in Patients receiving Intravenous Morphine via Patient-controlled Analgesia

Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable): 0301-096

Animal subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):

Project Type (patient-based research, animal-based research, or basic research; this characterization is only to permit a general classification for grouping similar types of projects) Patient based research

Brief Description of Project:

Patients will be randomly allocated to three treatment groups, Gp A receives IV placebo, Gp B receives Nalmefene IV at the commencement of surgery, Gp C receives nalmefene at the end of surgery.

Following surgery patients will receive patient contolled IV morphine. This study will monitor pain levels and side effects postoperatively for the first 24 hours.

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