Combination Analgesia for Neonatal Circumcision

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

Circumcision is a commonly performed procedure on newborn males. Clear recommendations and/or guidelines for pain control during the procedure do not exist. The purpose of this research is to compare various forms of analgesia to evaluate which is the more effective for pain reduction. The investigators hope that this study can provide definitive guidelines on the best form of analgesia to use during circumcision. It is important that we perform this study to ensure that in the future newborns' pain during circumcision is effectively managed.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: American University of Beirut Medical Center
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; EMLA; Lidocaine; Lidocaine, Prilocaine Drug Combination; Prilocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy, term, newborn males with a gestational age of 37 weeks or more admitted to the newborn nursery at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unhealthy, premature males.