NCT01075789

Using Lignocaine Spray and Gel to Reduce the Pain Associated With Nasogastric Tube Insertion in Children

The Combined Use of Intranasal Lignocaine Spray and Oral Lignocaine Gel to Reduce the Pain and Trauma Associated With Nasogastric Tube Insertion in Hospitalised Children.

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Queensland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Nasogastric tube insertion is one of the most common invasive procedures performed in children's hospitals, and has long been recognised as one of the most traumatic and painful. As a once off procedure, a nasogastric tube insertion is extremely distressing but the repeated procedures that many children endure as a necessary part of treatment for a chronic disease can be so traumatic that psychological damage may occur. There have been a limited number of studies carried out which have looked at methods to reduce the pain and trauma associated with this procedure, but most of these have been carried out in the adult population. The investigators propose to carry out a research project in a paediatric setting to definitively investigate the use of local anaesthetic spray, in combination with local anaesthetic gel, to numb the nasal passages and the back of the throat, with the aim of reducing or removing the unpleasant sensation of the nasogastric tube placement. If the study shows a benefit from the use of local anaesthetics, it would be an inexpensive and easily incorporated intervention that could be inserted into the routine procedure for nasogastric tube insertion.

Conditions

• Intubation; Difficult

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Lignocaine	Lignocaine 10% solution administered intra nasally plus lignocaine 2% solution administered orally.
DRUG	Placebo	Viscous, coloured, sucrose flavoured gel solution to match xylocaine viscous in appearance, normal saline administered intranasally to the nasal turbinates and nasopharynx.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-05-01
• Primary completion: 2011-03-01
• Completion: 2011-03-01
• First posted: 2010-02-25
• Last updated: 2016-03-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia