Local Anesthesia Before Arterial Puncture for Blood Gas Analysis

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the interest of Local Anesthesia (lidocaïne/prilocaïne versus placebo)before arterial puncture for Blood Gas Analysis. The pain is measured with a numeric Pain Intensity for all patients included.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Brest
• Collaborator: Ministry of Health, France
• Treatments: Anesthetics; EMLA; Lidocaine; Lidocaine, Prilocaine Drug Combination; Prilocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged more than 18 years old, having signed an enlightened consent, who have an indication of gazometry by taking radial nerve

• Patients capable of estimating the pain felt with numeric pain intensity scale

• Patients with numeric pain intensity scale = 0 before sample of blood

• Patients with no contraindication or no allergy of an anesthetic such as lidocaine

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged less than 18 years old

• Patients incapable of estimating the pain felt with numeric pain intensity scale

• Patients with numeric pain intensity scale > 0 before sample of blood

• Patients for whom the arterial taking is impossible for the level radial nerve

• Hypersensibility to local anesthetics of the amide-type or other component of lidocaïne/prilocaïne cream

• Porphyries known

• Pregnant woman