Clinical Trial: Efficacy of Suvorexant on Post-operative Sleep Disturbance
Study Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Recruit Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Condition: Postoperative Insomnia
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Improvement of Restorative Sleep and Post-surgical Insomnia Following Suvorexant Administration
Brief Summary:
The study is a parallel group, double blind, randomized trial.Subjects will be recruited from individuals undergoing elective surgery for orthopedic, abdominal, urologic, gynecologic or spine reasons.Out of 92 subjects, one experimental group of 46 subjects will receive 20 mg Suvorexant beginning the first in-hospital night ("day 0") and continuing for their hospital stay.If the dose is not well tolerated (e.g., daytime sleepiness), then the dose may be decreased to 10 mg of Suvorexant.For blinding…
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