Ethyl Chloride Vapocoolant as Anesthesia for Arterial Punctures
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2017-01-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Ethyl chloride vapocoolant sprays provide transient skin anesthesia within seconds of
application. The current investigation aim is to compare the effect of ethyl chloride based
vapocoolant spray to placebo in reducing pain associated with arterial puncture for gasometry
determinations.
The investigators will conduce a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial at
Emergency Department.
We will enroll patients who come to Emergency Department who need an arterial gasometry
determination. Patients will be randomized to intervention-group (ethyl chloride vapocoolant
sprays will be usad before arterial puncture) or to placebo-group (alcohol spray as placebo
will be used before arterial puncture.) and after the puncture they will rate their pain
using a 10 points visual analogue scale.
Phase:
N/A
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Bionorte
Collaborators:
Basque Country University Osakidetza University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)