Synera™ for Epidural Needle Insertion

IWK Health Centre

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Pain Associated With Epidural Needle Insertion

Treatments: Drug: Synera(TM); Other: Placebo patch

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00564785

DWA-2007-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

We hypothesized that the analgesic effect of Synera™ analgesic patch would be superior to traditional infiltration with lidocaine for pain of epidural needle insertion in laboring parturients.

Enrollment: 33 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• older than 18 years, body mass index less than 45 kg•m-2, requesting a labor epidural

Exclusion criteria

• hypersensitivity to any study medications

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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33 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Placebo patch

Synera(TM)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: Synera(TM)