Patient-Applied Pretreatment Analgesia for Intrauterine Device Placement

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2024-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to perform a pilot study looking at the benefit of topical anesthetic application to the cervix by tampon prior to intra-uterine device insertion. The main question it aims to answer are:

• Does patient tampon-applied local anesthetic prior to insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD) reduce procedural duration?

• Does patient tampon-applied local anesthetic prior to insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD) reduce pain and improve patient perceptions of the procedure? Participants will place a tampon after dipping the tampon into the study-supplied medication (aqueous lidocaine or saline). Researchers will compare treatment and control groups to see if there is any difference in procedure time, difficulty or patient perceptions.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• Collaborator: American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Request IUD insertion

• Age 18 or older

• Willingness to return for procedure after completing virtual study consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known allergy to viscous lidocaine or tampons

• Current vaginal or cervical injury