Compare the Efficacy and Safety of Intranasal Esketamine in Chronic Opioid Refractory Pain
WithdrawnPhase 2NCT04666623
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
This study is to assess the efficacy and safety of a four-week treatment with intranasal esketamine (56 mg) twice a week combined with opioid analgesic and adjuvant standard therapy in the management of adult patients with severe and opioid refractory chronic cancer pain.
Study details
- Official title
- IMPORTANCE Trial - A Provisional Study-design of a Single-center, Phase II, Double-blinded, Placebo-controlled, Randomized, 4-week Study to Compare the Efficacy and Safety of Intranasal Esketamine in Chronic Opioid Refractory Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Drug: esketamine nasal spray
- Drug: placebo nasal spray
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
- Start date
- 2020-11-25
- Primary completion
- 2023-10-11
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patient with refractory cancer pain, this pain defined when: * Multiple evidence- based biomedical therapies used in a clinically appropriate and acceptable fashion have failed to reach treatment goals that mainly include adequate pain reduction and/or improvement in daily living functioning activities. * Patients' functional activities do not allow a quality of life which is acceptable and/or pharmaceutical therapies have resulted in intolerable adverse effects. * Psychiatric disorders and psychosocial factors that could influence pain outcomes have been assessed and appropriately addressed * Cancer pain classified as chronic (persistent or recurrent pain lasting longer than 3 months), and currently refractory despite optimized analgesic therapy including an opioid. • Optimized analgesic therapy is arbitrarily defined as: oral morphine equivalent of 60 mg/d or more (or another strong opioid at optimized dose) plus at least one adjuvant analgesic drug, for at least 2 weeks. * No increase in baseline long acting opioid dose or addition of a new adjuvant analgesic drug within 2 weeks prior to study entry * Ability to communicate the intensity of pain using the NPRS pain scale ranging from (0 as no pain to 10 with severe pain). * Ability to give fully informed written consent. * Expect survival more than 3 months. Exclusion Criteria: * History of allergy or intolerance to esketamine or ketamine. * History of allergy to disinfecting products containing quaternary ammonium, who might be susceptible to be allergic to denatonium benzoate. * Concomitant use of xanthine derivatives (e.g. aminophylline, theophylline), ergometrine, or monoamine oxidase inhibitors. * Active nasal/sinus dysfunction (e.g. allergic or infectious rhinitis) or presence of any lesion of the nasal mucosa. * Pregnancy, breastfeeding and women of childbearing potential not using a highly effective contraception method. * Uncontrolled hypertension, arrhythmia, heart failure, or untreated coronary artery disease. History of transient ischemic attacks, stroke, neurovascular disease, hemorrhage, severe head injury, hydrocephalus or elevated intracranial pressure within the last 3 months. * History of primary or metastatic malignant brain lesions (uncontrolled or without previous treatment). * Known aneurysmal vascular disease (including thoracic and abdominal aorta, intracranial, and peripheral arterial vessels) or arteriovenous malformation * Uncontrolled psychiatric illness…
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04666623