NCT00648687

Pain Response During Examination for Retinopathy of Prematurity

Evaluation of the Pain Response During Examination for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Bioethics Commission of Brazil · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Weeks – 6 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Newborns infants equal or less than 1500 grams and/or equal and less than 32 weeks will have ophthalmologic examination for ROP at 6 weeks old. They will be randomized blindly to receive 2 ml of 12.5% dextrose in water (D12.5W) orally five minute before examination (intervention group) or nothing (control). NIPS scale will be applied two minutes before examination and two minutes after examination.

Conditions

• Retinopathy of Prematurity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	suck 12.5% dextrose in water 5 minutes before the procedure	Newborns will suck 2 ml of D12.5W 5 minutes before eye exam for ROP

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2008-04-01
• Last updated: 2010-07-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil