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Variable Perception of Cutaneous Stimulation

NCT03467685 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 101

Last updated 2020-09-18

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Summary

Perception of cutaneous sensory stimulation shows a large range of variability across multiple populations. Understanding this variability is critical to medical practice as interpretation of discomfort and pain is critical to diagnosis and treatment. Further, procedural medicine involves inflicting pain on patients in the form of injection of local anesthetic. Our protocol aims to determine how patients differentially interpret the non-noxious stimulation of vibration and the differences in perceiving anesthestic injection after the vibratory stimulus. We will explore how this ranges across all patients treated in a dermatological surgery out-patient setting. The goal is to identify which variables, such as age, gender, medical history, influence how sensation is interpreted.

Conditions

  • Pain, Acute
  • Anesthesia, Local
  • Dermatology/Skin - Other

Interventions

DEVICE

Vibratory Anesthetic Device (VAD)

This is a handheld \~10cm long tool, battery operated, which provides vibration at a rate of \~150 Hz

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-19
Primary Completion
2018-09-30
Completion
2018-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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