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Essential Oils for Electrocautery

NCT04260867 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 111

Last updated 2025-01-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess whether essential oil aromatherapy could improve or eliminate the smell of burnt flesh from electrocautery and subsequently mitigate patient anxiety and discomfort during dermatologic skin surgery.

This is a randomized clinical trial. Approximately 210 electrocautery participants will be randomized to receive sham control/no aromatherapy or aromatherapy. Patients will be asked to complete a questionnaire after completion of the procedure to assess their experience. This study was a pilot study designed to determine the feasibility of this procedure.

Subjects currently living in the Chicago metropolitan area and meet inclusion/exclusion criteria will be invited and considered for enrollment.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Essential Oil

Those randomized to the treatment group will have containers filled with the essential oil of their choice.

OTHER

No Essential Oil

Those randomized to the control group will then be given empty single-use handheld aromatherapy containers containing no essential oil.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Murad Alam, MD · Northwestern University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-12-22
Primary Completion
2021-06-01
Completion
2025-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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