The Addition of Oral Analgesics to LET During Laceration Repair

Pain Clinical Trial

Official title: Adjunctive Oral Analgesia for Laceration Repair: Assessing Pain in a Pediatric Emergency Department

Status Suspended

Clinical Trial Summary

Background Approximately 30 million children are treated in emergency departments each year in the United States, of which two to three million are children presenting with lacerations. Topical numbing medication is the standard of care in children with regard to pain control during laceration repair. While topical numbing medications are effective, children often require further pain control during laceration repair in the form of an injected numbing medication, which in itself is painful. No evidence currently exists regarding the concurrent use of oral pain medications to combat laceration procedural pain.

Research Question Does the addition of ibuprofen or oxycodone to lidocaine, epinephrine, and tetracaine (LET) topical anesthetic provide more effective pain control than LET alone during laceration repair?

Design This is a double-blinded, randomized-controlled study.

Methods Subjects in all three groups will receive topical anesthetic. In addition to topical anesthetic, two groups of children will receive either of two oral analgesics, ibuprofen or oxycodone, while the third group will receive a placebo.

Clinical Trial Description

n/a

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Laceration
• Lacerations
• Pain

• NCT number: NCT01268670
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
• Status: Suspended
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 2012