Prehospital Analgesia in Adults Using Inhaled Methoxyflurane : A Feasibility Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Pain is common and can contribute to both psychological and physiological effects if not treated. Currently primary care paramedics have limited selections within their pain management tool box. This contributes to inadequate pain management. Methoxyflurane is a safe, easy and effective choice in prehospital management of pain. The impact of this feasibility trial, will hope to inform the larger multi-centred trial and then support the implementation of out-of-hospital Canadian National Guidelines for prehospital pain control, enabling paramedics to provide rapid, effective prehospital pain relief to patients.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
• Collaborator: University of Ottawa
• Treatments: Methoxyflurane

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• >=18 years of age

• Acute pain from traumatic injury

• numeric pain score >=4

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy or sensitivity to methoxyflurane

• History or family history of malignant hyperthermia

• Pregnant or breast-feeding patients

• Known renal impairment

• Known liver disease

• Methoxyflurane use within previous 3 months