Pain Impact Assessment of the Relational Touch During Arterial Puncture in ICU (TORREA) (ToRRéa)

University Hospital, Angers

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Procedure: relational touch

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02684149

2014-A01607-40

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study objective is to assess the interest of the relational touch before an arterial puncture to reduce pain on patient in intensive care unit.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Admission in Intensive Care Unit
• Communicating patient (able to rate their pain on a numerical scale)
• Need for a radial arterial puncture for conducting blood tests, apart for the emergency
• Non-opposition of the patient

Exclusion criteria

• Age under 18
• Tetraplegic patient or having a sensitivity disorder on the limb to be punctured
• No radial pulse perception

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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75 participants in 2 patient groups

A

Experimental group

Description:

Relational touch before the first arterial puncture and the second arterial puncture without relational touch

Treatment:

Procedure: relational touch

B

Experimental group

Description:

First arterial puncture without relational touch and relational touch before the second arterial puncture

Treatment:

Procedure: relational touch