Nasal Fentanyl And Renal Colic

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether nasal fentanyl is effective in the treatment of renal colic in adults in emergency department.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Valduce Hospital
• Treatments: Fentanyl; Ketorolac; Ketorolac Tromethamine; Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• The patients were adults aged 18 to 65 years, presenting in ED with classical clinical symptoms of renal colic (sudden monolateral flank pain with inguinal irradiation) with a 10-cm visual analog scale (VAS) greater than or equal to 7

Exclusion Criteria:

• Were analgesia within 6 hours of arrival

• Allergy to opiates and NSAIDs

• Opiates abuse, known or suspected abdominal aortic dissection or aneurism,

• Presence of peritonitis

• Hemodynamic instability

• Pregnancy, breastfeeding, anticoagulant therapy.

• Patients with known renal, pulmonary, cardiac or hepatic failure, as well as those with renal transplantation, were also excluded.