The SToICAL Study - The Soft Tissue Injection of Corticosteroid And Local Anaesthetic Study
Status:
Suspended
Trial end date:
2022-08-26
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Some hand conditions can be treated with a steroid injection. Some doctors mix the steroid
with local anaesthetic in the hope that the patient will experience less pain after the
injection. Some doctors do not do this. It is not known if adding local anaesthetic to the
steroid improves patient's pain after the injection.
The overall aim of the study is to see whether using local anaesthetic in the steroid
injection makes a difference to patients' pain. If the study shows that using local
anaesthetic improves patients' pain then the investigators should continue using it. If not,
the investigators should stop giving patients unnecessary medication, which would also save
the NHS time and money.
Phase:
Phase 3
Details
Lead Sponsor:
University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust
Treatments:
Anesthetics Anesthetics, Local Triamcinolone Triamcinolone Acetonide Triamcinolone diacetate Triamcinolone hexacetonide