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Nitrous Oxide Vasodilation Healthy Adult Volunteers

NCT01785030 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7

Last updated 2019-01-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a gas that is normally used to take away pain and anxiety during painful medical procedures. However, one of its effects is to also make veins appear larger and more visible. This is useful when there is a patient who needs to have an intravenous (IV) needle put in their skin to give them medicine or fluids, but may have veins that are very hard to see or feel. The mechanism of this observed effect is not entirely clear. The purpose of this study is to use an ultrasound to directly measure whether there is an actual change size of veins or change in blood flow in healthy adult volunteers when you give them 50% nitrous oxide, and see whether or not this change in size, or change in flow, is what causes the changes in visibility or palpability of the vein.

Conditions

  • Peripheral Vein Vasodilation

Interventions

DRUG

50% Nitrous oxide

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel S Tsze, MD, MPH · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-02-28
Primary Completion
2017-02-28
Completion
2017-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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