Efficacy of Ametop Cream in Reducing Pain of Local Anesthetic Infiltration

University of British Columbia

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Drug: Ametop cream

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01864213

H13-00771

Details and patient eligibility

About

Ametop is a numbing cream used to ease the pain of having blood drawn or an IV inserted. It is safe and virtually none enters the blood stream. It's effectiveness at reducing the pain of the freezing injection prior to epidural/ spinal anesthesia in pregnant women has not been studied.

Full description

We propose to randomize 70 women to have either the numbing cream or a similar looking moisturizing cream placed on their lower back before their anesthetic. They will rate the discomfort of the freezing injection allowing us to compare the two groups and determine if the numbing cream is effective.

Enrollment: 78 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any pregnant subject undergoing an elective procedure under neuraxial anesthesia.

Exclusion criteria

• Any contraindication to neuraxial anesthesia
• Subjects in labour

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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78 participants in 1 patient group

Ametop cream

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: Ametop cream