NCT01616004

Effect of Acute Treatment With N2O on Inhibitory Pain Mechanisms in Healthy Subject

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether N2O (laughing gas) has an antinociceptive effects in healthy volunteers.

Detailed description

10 healthy volunteers will come twice to the pain medicine unit, at 1 visit they'll get N2O and in the second visit they'll get air as placebo, they won't know what they're getting. During the visit they'll get heat stimulus using QST and will have to report their pain using eVAS (scale from 0 to 100 when 0 is no pain and 100 is the worst pain imagine).

Conditions

• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	N2O
DRUG	Air	sham comparator

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-01
• Primary completion: 2015-08-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2012-06-11
• Last updated: 2014-09-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel