NCT05511155

Oxygen Therapy for Headache

Efficacy of Oxygen Therapy in Primary Headache Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 132 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aksaray University Training and Research Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Headache is one of the common causes of emergency department admissions and constitutes approximately 2%. Although the exact mechanism is not clear, It is known that high-flow oxygen therapy is effective in headache treatment. There are limited studies related to the use of oxygen therapy in headaches and its derivatives in the literature. In this study, the investigators aimed to compare the high and medium flow oxygen therapies with placebo in primary headache disorders.

Detailed description

Four different treatment methods were determined; 1) high-flow oxygen (15lt/min oxygen), 2) medium-flow oxygen (8lt/min oxygen), 3) high-flow room air as placebo (15 lt/min room air), 4) medium-flow room air as placebo (8 lt/min room air). All four treatment methods will be applied to all patients included in the study. One of the four treatments will be randomly applied at each separate ED admission with a gap of 1 week or more in between. This randomization will be performed by a computer at the time of admission. A study nurse will administer the patient's therapy according to the computer's current decision for 15 minutes. Patients and treating physicians will be blinded to the selected therapy. After 15 minutes of the end of treatment (at the 30th minute of the start of treatment), the treating physician will ask patients if they need rescue analgesia and analgesia will be administered if necessary. Additional analgesia is at the discretion of the treating physician. Patient data, including demographics, medical history, and findings of a physical examination performed before and after therapy will be recorded by the treating physician.

Conditions

• Primary Headache Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Oxygen therapy	Oxygen therapy will be given for 15 minutes with a non-rebreathing mask.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-01
• Primary completion: 2022-08-31
• Completion: 2022-09-30
• First posted: 2022-08-22
• Last updated: 2022-10-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)