NCT02092441

Inhalation Intervention for Nausea in the Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brooke Army Medical Center · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Randomized controlled trial comparing inhalation of isopropyl alcohol vs placebo (normal saline) pads to treat nausea in emergency department patients.

Detailed description

This study is to investigate if inhaling the scent of a typical medical alcohol prep pad will alleviate nausea as compared to a identically packaged normal saline prep pad for the Emergency Department patient with nausea. The study length will be 10 minutes long. The subjects will take several deep nasal inhalations at the 0, 2, 5 minute marks. Level of nausea will be recorded during these times and at 10 minutes. The investigators will also assess satisfaction of the intervention. As in previous post operative unit studies,the hypothesis is that there will a significant difference in levels of nausea between the alcohol pad group versus the normal saline pad group.

Conditions

• Nausea
• Vomiting

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Alcohol prep pad group	Subjects inhale scent of alcohol pad
OTHER	Normal Saline prep pad	Subjects inhale scent of placebo (normal saline) pads

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2015-06-01
• First posted: 2014-03-20
• Last updated: 2016-05-23
• Results posted: 2015-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States