Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03618875
Reduction of Post Intravitreal Injection Bleeding and Pain by Ice
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 40 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Wolfson Medical Center · Other Government
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Intravitreal injections are an efficient method for delivering intraocular therapeutic agents in numerous ophthalmologic diseases. However, side effects, such as pain and subconjunctival hemorrhage remain a major concern. Prevention or alleviation of those side effects might shorten the healing duration and improve patients' quality of life.
Detailed description
cooling the eye using ice patched prior to Intravitreal injections may ameliorated pain and subconjunctival hemorrhage incidences.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | ice pack | ice pack was placed on eyelid 5 minutes prior to IVIT |
| OTHER | room temperature pack | room temperature pack was placed on eyelid 5 minutes prior to IVIT |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2017-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-11-01
- Completion
- 2017-11-25
- First posted
- 2018-08-07
- Last updated
- 2018-08-07
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Israel
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03618875. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.