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Cutaneous Administration of Local Anesthetic for Spine Injection Procedures

NCT00756301 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 55

Last updated 2012-06-06

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Summary

Interventional spine procedures are an increasingly popular means of diagnosis and treatment of spine disease. By convention, local anesthetics are used at the beginning of these procedures with the goal of minimizing pain. However, the infiltration of the local anesthetic is painful. This initial painful stimulus can heighten pain awareness and cause anxiety or excessive movement during the procedure.

The purpose of this study is to determine patient discomfort with administration of cutaneous local anesthetic prior to interventional spine procedures compared to no anesthetic administration for different gauge procedural needles. Another purpose is to determine patient discomfort with administration of local anesthetic by traditional technique compared to an alternative technique and to develop a standardized technique and criteria for local anesthetic administration during spine injection procedures that minimizes patient pain, and may help reduce the overall risk of these procedures.

We plan to enroll a total of 200-300 subjects coming to Stanford for symmetric bilateral single injections.

Conditions

  • Spinal Diseases

Interventions

OTHER

Lidocaine local anesthesia- Alternative

Local anesthetic (Lidocaine) injected using traditional technique (involves injecting Lidocaine into the skin first, then into the deeper tissues).

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Matthew W Smuck · Stanford University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-06-30
Primary Completion
2011-08-31
Completion
2011-09-30

Countries

  • United States

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