Role of Oral Sucrose in Reducing the Pain to Orogastric Tube Insertion in Preterm Neonates

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS Orally administered sucrose 2 minutes prior to the procedure of OGT insertion reduces pain associated with the procedure.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

To study the effect of 24% oral sucrose on decreasing the painful response to orogastric tube insertion .

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Lady Hardinge Medical College

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All pre-terms ( < 37 weeks of gestational age.)

• Within the first 7 days postnatal days (
• Clinically stable from respiratory, hemodynamic and metabolic point of view.

• Who have not received any painful stimulus at least 30 minutes prior to the intervention.

• Requiring routine orogastric tube insertion within the first 7 days of life.

• Only the first attempt at putting OGT in controlled NICU environment will be considered

Exclusion Criteria:

The neonates with the following characteristics will be excluded from the study:

• Neonates requiring ventilatory support.

• Neonates requiring oxygen supplementation.

• Having any facial congenital anomalies.

• Having any neurological impairment.

• Receiving opiates or born to mothers receiving opiates.

• New born babies to whom muscle relaxants, sedatives and analgesics have been administered.

• With grade 3 and 4 IVH.

• With major congenital anomalies

• Any history of birth trauma especially involving face or scalp (including cephalhematoma/ subgaleal bleed).

• Face presentation.