NCT00856232

Oxygen Therapy for the Treatment of Undifferentiated Headache in the Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 91 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will randomly assign emergency department patients seeking treatment for a headache to one of three groups. The first group will receive standard emergency care as determined by the treating physician, the second group will breathe high flow air by facemask for 15 minutes, and the third group will breathe high flow oxygen by face mask for 15 minutes. The patients will be questioned in the beginning of their treatment and at 2, 5, 10, 15 and 30 minutes after it's begun about the intensity of their headache and how much relief they are experiencing from their treatment. Concentration of carbon dioxide exhaled by patients will also be recorded at 0, 2, 5, 10, 15 and 30 minutes. After fifteen minutes, the patients in groups 2 and 3 will continue with standard emergency care, which can include any treatment their physician sees fit. Patients in all three groups will receive a stopwatch in the beginning of their emergency department visit and record the total extent of time their headache will take to resolve.

Detailed description

Thorough description provided in brief summary.

Conditions

• Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BIOLOGICAL	Medical Air	Compressed medical air
BIOLOGICAL	Oxygen	Medical Oxygen

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-05-01
• Completion: 2011-05-01
• First posted: 2009-03-05
• Last updated: 2016-04-21
• Results posted: 2013-05-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States