A Clinical Trial of Cutaneous Xylocaine Spray to Reduce Intravenous Cannulation Pain in Adults
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2016-04-07
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The enrolled subjects will get an intravenous cannulation in both elbows. The subject will
get before xylocaine spray is placed, the intervention-arm, one intravenous cannulation in
one of the elbows, the other intravenous cannulation is placed in the other arm before
placebo spray is placed, the control arm. The pain score during insertion of the cannulation,
the incidence of adverse events and the success rate and degree of difficulty to place an
intravenous cannulation. The subjects and the one who place the cannulations will be blinded
to the treatment.