Reduction of Topical Anesthetic Onset Time Using Ultrasound

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Device: SonoPrep

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00126932

05-003

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children ages 3-7 who are undergoing blood drawing receive either standard care, topical medicine for numbing (LMX4), or the study intervention which utilizes ultrasound to speed the onset of LMX4 from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. The child's pain with the blood drawing procedure is evaluated.

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 7 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages 3-7, requiring venipuncture

Exclusion criteria

• Emergent procedure
• Allergy to lidocaine or sodium lauryl sulfate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)