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Prehospital Analgesia in Adults Using Inhaled Methoxyflurane Study

NCT06392087 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1800

Last updated 2024-07-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is about a new pain relief medication called methoxyflurane. Pain from injuries, like broken bones, is a big reason people call ambulances. It's important to treat pain well because it can make people sick and slow down healing. But often, pain isn't treated enough, which can lead to more problems.

Paramedics use different drugs to manage pain, but some are hard to give and need special training and equipment. Methoxyflurane is a new option. It's a gas you breathe in through a special inhaler. It's been used in Australia and New Zealand for a long time and has shown to work quickly and safely for different kinds of pain.

This study wants to see if methoxyflurane works well for people with moderate to severe pain from injuries compared to other medicines like Advil, Tylenol and opioids. It's testing if methoxyflurane can give fast pain relief and if paramedics find it easy to use. The study will help understand if methoxyflurane could be a good option for treating pain in ambulances.

Conditions

  • Pain, Acute

Interventions

DRUG

Methoxyflurane

Patients ≥ 18 years of age (using a waiver of consent process) Pain score ≥ 4 on the verbal numeric pain rating scale (NPRS) traumatic injury (defined as: physical injuries of sudden onset and severity which requires immediate medical attention) Unaltered (Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≥ 14) Normotensive (systolic blood pressure ≥100) Treated and transported

OTHER

Standard Care

Patients ≥ 18 years of age (using a waiver of consent process) Pain score ≥ 4 on the verbal numeric pain rating scale (NPRS) traumatic injury (defined as: physical injuries of sudden onset and severity which requires immediate medical attention) Unaltered (Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≥ 14) Normotensive (systolic blood pressure ≥100) Treated and transported

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-08-01
Primary Completion
2025-03-01
Completion
2025-12-31

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