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Opiate Sleep Disordered Breathing Study

NCT00791674 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2008-11-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Lay title: A study of breathing pauses during sleep in patients on long term opiates.

Sleep apnoea is a term which refers to frequent breathing pauses during sleep. Breathing can stop at night due to the upper airway collapsing (Obstructive sleep apnoea)or reduced signals from the brain driving breathing (central sleep apnoea). Clinical observation has noticed that patients on opiates have an increase in sleep apnoea.

Hypothesis: This study looks at the relationship of opiates (when used for patients chronic pain) and the occurrence of sleep apnoea. It is expected that there will be an increase in sleep apnoea (particularly of the central variant) particularly in patients on long term opiates.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Flinders Medical Centre

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anand R Rose, MD,FRACP · Adelaide Institute of Sleep Health

  • Doug McEvoy, MD, FRACP · Adelaide Institute of Sleep Health, Repatriation General Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-12-31

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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