Skin Refrigerant to Reduce the Pain Associated With IV Insertion

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the pain of IV catheter insertion in the Emergency Department can be reduced significantly with the use of a rapid acting topical anesthetic spray and to determine whether or not healthcare providers who undergo such treatment are likely to endorse its use in their future practice.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Brooke Army Medical Center
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Ethyl Chloride

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. At least 18 years of age

2. A healthcare worker who routinely orders or places IV catheters.

3. Consents to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. History of hypersensitivity to Ethyl Chloride.

2. Break, or swollen in the skin at the proposed IV site.

3. Pregnancy or lactating female.

4. Recent tattoo in either of the two proposed anatomical areas for IV cannulation.

5. Skin infection in either of the two proposed anatomical areas for IV cannulation.

6. Missing a contralateral limb to place the second IV.

7. Recent trauma to one of the upper extremities or any neuropathic or radicular condition that could affect the participant's perception of pain in the antecubital fossa of each arm.

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