Nitrous Oxide for Analgesia During Nasogastric Tube Placement in Young Children

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Since nitrous oxide/oxygen mixture is effective to reduce pain and anxiety induced by various painful procedures in children, the investigators hypothesized that its inhalation would reduce pain during nasogastric tube placement in young children.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of 50%/50% nitrous/oxide mixture in reducing pain induced by nasogastric tube insertion in children aged 3 months to 3 years in the pediatric emergency department.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Collaborators: URC Paris Descartes Necker Cochin; URC-CIC Paris Descartes Necker Cochin
• Treatments: Nitrous Oxide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Child from 3 months to 3 years old.

• Admission to the Pediatric Emergency Department

• Medical prescription for the insertion of a nasogastric tube.

• Child with gastroenteritis and / or bronchiolitis and / or food intolerance with mild to moderate dehydration

• Parental presence and parental consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Vital emergency.

• Refusal of parents.

• Refusal of parents to be filmed

• Child already included in the study or in course of participation in another study.

• Tube placement performed by a medical student or nursing student.

• Patient requiring 100% oxygen ventilation.

• No social security.

• Child with a mental handicap or known retardation

• History of child intolerance to Nitrous oxide ( excessive sedation or respiratory depression during previous use)

• Child with head trauma in the previous 3 days

Premature discontinuation of study participation :

• Parents' request to stop participating in the study.

• Insertion of the nasogastric tube is not possible