Lidocaine Patches Prior to Intravenous Insertion

Stony Brook University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Need for Intravenous Catheter

Treatments: Device: Lidocaine tetracaine; Device: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00552695

20076689

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will determine whether application of a patch containing a topical anesthetic (numbing medicine) named lidocaine can reduce the pain of subsequent insertion of an intravenous catheter in Emergency Department patients.

Full description

Patients will be randomly assigned to an active lidocaine patch or a patch that conatins a placebo or inactive agent. Neither the patient nor the practitioner will know which patch is used since they will appear identical.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age greater than or equal to 3,
• Need for non-emergent intravenous catheter

Exclusion criteria

• Unstable patients,
• Allergy to lidocaine or tetracaine

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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45 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Lidocaine 70 mg/tetracaine 70 mg skin patch

Treatment:

Device: Lidocaine tetracaine

2

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Placebo