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Strategies to Maximise Patient Comfort During ESWL

NCT03379922 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2019-04-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is an outpatient treatment for patients with intrarenal calculi. Standard of care involves offering oral analgesia prior to commencing the treatment. Most patients do not take the offered analgesia after the initial treatment. It has been suggested that distraction techniques may be equivalent to oral analgesia in improving tolerability of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy treatment. The use of distraction techniques also removes the potential side effects of mediation administration.

Conditions

  • Nephrolithiasis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Stress balls

Squeezing stress balls while receiving ESWL treatment

BEHAVIORAL

Headphones

Listening to music while receiving ESWL treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cliodhna Browne

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cliodhna Browne, MRCSI · University College Hospital Galway, Ireland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-03-27
Primary Completion
2018-12-12
Completion
2018-12-12

Countries

  • Ireland

Study Locations

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