Therapeutic Epidural Patch Versus Pain Block in the Midface for Headache

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2021-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare a pain block in the midface, versus the traditional, more invasive, therapeutic epidural patch for the treatment of headaches

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Collaborator: New Jersey Medical School
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Males and females ages 13-92

• Subjects have medical diagnosis of PDPH and require treatment

• Subjects who signed consent/assent

Exclusion Criteria:

• <13 years of age

• Pregnancy

• Subjects with heart failure

• Subjects already being treated with lidocaine patch or other vehicle for chronic pain

• Non-english speaking subjects

• Subjects with platelets <100,000

• Subjects that are septic

• Subjects with an allergy to lidocaine

• Subjects with known nasal polyps

• Subjects with recent neurological event

• Subjects on anticoagulant therapy

• Subjects that received prior therapy with SPG block or EBP