Prospective Evaluation of Topical Analgesia for Laceration Repair in the Emergency Department

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2019-12-02
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if topical analgesia using a lidocaine and prilocaine cream improves pain scores compared to the usual local anesthesia using subcutaneous 1% lidocaine and adrenalin injected near the laceration.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier le Mans
• Collaborator: University Hospital, Angers
• Treatments: Epinephrine; Lidocaine; Lidocaine, Prilocaine Drug Combination; Prilocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Superficial skin laceration requiring a suture

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known allergy to lidocaine

• Mucous membrane or eye wound

• Nose, ear or perineal wound

• Active hemorrhage in the wound

• Dirty or infected wound

• Wound requiring operation room management

• Distracting pain in an other location

• Intoxicated or comatose patient

• Patient Under guardianship

• Contra-indication to Lidocaine/Prilocaine cream: hypersensitivity, glucose-6-phosphate deficiency, idiopathic methemoglobinemia

• Neurologic disorder affecting pain sensitivity

• Dementia

• Pregnancy, breast feeding, absence of contraceptive measures for women of childbearing age

• Absence of signed informed consent

• Inclusion in an other interventional clinical protocol