Lidocaine Gel During Transrectal Sonography

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The aim of this clinical trial is to evaluate the use of topical lidocaine gel in reducing pain associated with transrectal ultrasonography (TRS) in gynecologic field.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Kangbuk Samsung Hospital
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All virgin women who were scheduled to undergo transrectal sonography invited to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy to lidocaine or other local anesthetics;

• Patients with a chronic pain condition for which they were taking daily pain medications of any kind.

• A bleeding diathesis and/or anticoagulant treatment;

• Underlying anal or rectal diseases such as symptomatic hemorrhoid, anal fissure, fistulae or anal stricture;

• An inability to rate a visual analogue scale