Pretreatment to Reduce Pain and Discomfort During Fiberoptic Nasal Pharyngoscopy and Laryngoscopy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-02-16
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Fiberoptic laryngoscopy (FOL) is one of the most common procedure done in an Ear Nose Throat (ENT) clinic. Topical anesthesia or decongestant or both have been used to improve patient comfort level during the procedure. Recently, role of these agents has been questioned. The investigators would like to study whether topical anesthesia or decongestant or their combination provide any benefit to the patients undergoing FOL.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Lumbini Medical College
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Ephedrine; Lidocaine; Nasal Decongestants; Oxymetazoline; Phenylephrine; Pseudoephedrine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing fiberoptic naso pharyngo laryngoscopy in OPD setting

• Consent to study

• above 18 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• gross nasal mass

• pregnants

• known hypersensitivity to the drugs used for premedication

• who cannot respond to questionnaire during data collection