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The Investigators aimed to assess primarily whether or not Hilotherapy masks are a tolerable treatment for the conservative management of epistaxis and nasal fractures.


Clinical Trial Description

Participants who had ongoing epistaxis and met the inclusion criteria where enrolled in the pilot study . Bleeding severity was not recorded. All participants enrolled were clinically stable with active epistaxis. Participants who were unstable or were ineligible were not referred to the recruiting doctors by A&E triage. Following informed consent the Hilotherm mask was fitted for an initial period of 20 minutes. If the bleeding had improved or stopped following 20 minutes of treatment the Hilotherm mask remained fitted for a 20 further minutes . A subjective decision was made by the supervising doctor and the participant to whether the flow of epistaxis had improved after the initial 20 minutes of hilotherapy.

The mask was removed if there was no improvement after the initial 20 minutes of hilotherapy, 40 minutes of total hilotherapy treatment, participant preference, worsening observations or profuse bleeding. Participants received conventional epistaxis management simultaneously, this involved continued nasal pressure application during hilotherapy. Following hilotherapy if epistaxis continued then either nasal cauterisation or packing was performed. Participants who were packed cessation of epistaxis was determined at the time of packing if bleeding had ceased. Bleeding time was accurately assessed by the recruiting doctor from the time of hilotherm mask application to the time of complete epistaxis cessation. All of the participants were treated in the sitting position.

Participants were free to withdraw from the trial at any time and no further data was analysed from the individual. Clinicians recorded anticoagulant and antiplatelet use, duration of bleeding and patient demographics. All participants completed a questionnaire following their hilotherapy treatment independantly.

A similar protocol was devised for nasal fractures. ;


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NCT number NCT04279288
Study type Interventional
Source Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Contact
Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date May 1, 2018
Completion date August 1, 2019

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