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Pilot Study of Sucrose to Reduce Pain in Sick Babies

NCT01438008 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 9

Last updated 2020-10-19

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Summary

Small amounts of sweet tasting sugar water reduces pain in babies during painful blood tests and injections. The investigators do not know if sugar also reduces pain in babies already receiving a continuous infusion of opioid analgesics. This project will help determine if small amounts of sugar water reduce pain in babies already receiving a continuous infusion of opioid analgesic during a heel lance procedure or nasogastric/orogastric (NG/OG) tube insertions. The investigators hypothesize that infants who are receiving opioid analgesics will have lower pain scores during their blood tests (heel lance) or NG/OG tube insertion, when sucrose is given, compared to when water is given.

Conditions

  • Pain Due to Certain Specified Procedures

Interventions

DRUG

24% sucrose po solution

CHEO pharmacy department will provide syringes labeled "NICU Pain Relief Study" containing a maximum of 1 ml dose of a 24% sucrose solution. The maximum amount of the study solution will be administered according to the infant's gestational age and according to the hospital's Sucrose policy. The total amount of the study solution will be divided into a maximum of 5 aliquots and administered throughout the procedure at two minutes prior to the heel lance, immediately prior to the heel lance, and two-minutely intervals until completion of the procedure.

DRUG

Placebo po

CHEO pharmacy department will provide syringes labeled "NICU Pain Relief Study" containing a maximum of 1 ml dose of water (almost identical in color, consistency and odor placebo to the sucrose solution in identical packaging) The total amount of the study solution will be divided into 5 aliquots and administered throughout the procedure at two minutes prior to the heel lance, immediately prior to the heel lance, and two-minutely intervals until completion of the procedure

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Ottawa

    collaborator OTHER

  • Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Denise Harrison, PhD · Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-05-31
Primary Completion
2016-09-30
Completion
2016-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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