17 Clinical Trials for Various Conditions
The purpose of the study is to evaluate two different ways to administer the numbing solution. One is with a conventional needle and syringe the other method iontophoresis is a machine that supplies a weak current through electrodes that touch your teeth. Both methods use an anesthesia solution to make your teeth numb but the iontophoresis system contains no needle and the delivery device does not penetrate the gum.
Title: Effect of the DentalVibe injection system on pain during local anesthesia injections in children. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare self-reported pain scale measurements using the Wong-Baker FACES pain rating scale from an experimental group (local anesthesia injection with DentalVibe system) and a control group (traditional local anesthesia injection with DentalVibe system turned off) in children. Eligibility: Children age 5-11 years old who require local anesthesia for bilateral dental treatment at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) pediatric dental clinic. Children must understand and speak English. Interventions and evaluations: Each patient will have two separate restorative appointments where the DentalVibe will be used during local anesthetic injections. One appointment the DentalVibe will be turned on and one appointment the DentalVibe will be turned off. After each injection the child will be shown the Wong Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale and asked to pick a face associated with their level of hurt during the injection. Follow-up: All children will be followed up with any necessary recommended dental treatment.
The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal amount of lidocaine buffering needed to decrease injection pain when administering local anesthesia.
The investigators plan to evaluate the efficacy in reducing post-operative pain between local multimodal analgesia as compared to regional anesthesia in rotational ankle fractures.
The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of buffered local anesthesia injections to numb the gums and teeth during dental treatment. Adjusting the pH of lidocaine with sodium bicarbonate may reduce the pain of injection for both adults and children. In this study, the investigators will compare two local anesthetic preparations, a buffered anesthetic and the conventionally available anesthetic, for pain upon injection. Hypothesis: Anesthetic buffered to physiologic pH will result in a less painful injection compared to the acidic alternative used in most dental offices. This can be demonstrated by comparing two local anesthetic preparations, a buffered anesthetic and the conventionally available anesthetic, for pain upon injection.
This research is intended to show that it is safe and not difficult for nearly anyone to inject at least 125ml of a dilute solution of tumescent lidocaine and epinephrine (TLE), where a TLE solution consists of lidocaine (1gm/L) and epinephrine (1mg/L) in normal saline.
The purpose of this study is to compare infiltration pain and anesthetic efficacy between lidocaine and Bacteriostatic saline (BS) for ultrasound (US) guided intraarticular hip injections.
In this single-center randomized controlled trial, subjects undergoing a first-time ultrasound-guided unilateral intraarticular hip injection will be randomized into one of two groups: hip injection with prior local anesthesia (With LA) or hip injection without prior local anesthesia (Without LA). Visual analog scale (VAS) pain scores (0-100) will be collected after the local anesthesia injection (With LA group) and intraarticular hip injection (both groups). The primary outcome measure for comparison between the two groups will be VAS score for the intraarticular hip injection.
The purpose of this research is to find out if using liposomal bupivacaine solution (bupivacaine liposome) injections during lower extremity revascularization surgery will lower the amount of narcotic drugs used during and following the procedure.
The purpose of this study is to compare two different injection sites for local anesthesia in patients having hand surgery. The hypothesis is that subjects receiving injections around the three nerves of the forearm will provide faster pain control and greater patient satisfaction than patients having one injection closer to the shoulder.
This trial is a comparison of the anesthetic effectiveness of J-Tip needle-free jet injection of 1% buffered lidocaine to the anesthetic effectiveness of topical 4% ELA-Max for peripheral intravenous catheter (PIV) insertion. The researchers hypothesize that the jet injection of lidocaine will provide superior anesthesia to the ELA-Max prior to PIV insertion.
The purpose of this study is to determine the Finger Blood Glucose (sugar) when dexamethasone is added to a local anesthetic for a shoulder nerve block procedure. The investigators hypothesize that there is no increase in plasma glucose when 8 mg of dexamethasone is used as an adjuvant with local anesthetic to interscalene regional anesthesia. By performing finger stick blood glucose measures pre/peri and post operatively the investigators will be able to determine if any such increase exists.
This study aims to compare the effectiveness of the use of no topical anesthesia, topical coolant, and the use of vibration in the reduction of pain during trigger finger injections. This will be done by randomizing patients who are diagnosed with trigger finger, warrant and choose to continue with a steroid injection into each of the respective anesthetic (or lack thereof) methods described. After conducting this and gathering data on the subjects pain felt, we will compare the analgesia from each of the anesthetic methods.
This study will compare pre-treatment with ice prior to injection of local anesthetic for vulvar biopsy to no pre-treatment and evaluate pain levels and patient satisfaction with the procedure.
The objective of this study is to compare transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks to local wound infiltration (LWI) in terms of postoperative pain control in pediatric patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Our hypothesis is that TAP blocks will be superior to LWI for postoperative pain control resulting in decreased use of opioid / narcotic pain medication and decreased pain scored in the immediate 24-hour postoperative period. The rationale is that determining the effect of analgesia in this pediatric population is important to optimize clinical care.
Patients experience discomfort from lidocaine injections. Vibrating kinetic anesthesia devices (KAD) have been shown to reduce pain of injections in dentistry, pediatrics, and dermatology, though no studies of lidocaine injections in sites common to dermatologic surgery exist. We will conduct a randomized split-body study, in which healthy volunteers will rate the pain of lidocaine injections on a visual analog scale, with and without the vibrating kinetic anesthesia device being used during injection
The primary objective of this study is to assess if injection of local anesthetic to the laparoscopic trocar sites after a hysterectomy will make a difference in a patient's pain after surgery.