NCT00552695

Lidocaine Patches Prior to Intravenous Insertion

Phase II Study of Lidoderm Patches Prior to Intravenous Catheter Insertion.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stony Brook University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Need for Intravenous Catheter

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Lidocaine tetracaine	Lidocaine 70 mg/tetracaine 70 mg
DEVICE	Placebo	Placebo patch identical in appearance to Synera

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-08-01
• Primary completion: 2008-01-01
• Completion: 2008-01-01
• First posted: 2007-11-02
• Last updated: 2012-10-22
• Results posted: 2010-12-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States