- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01549002
Efficacy of Intranasal Fentanyl at Reducing Pain During Abscess Incision and Drainage (I&D) in Children
Children can develop abscesses (a collection of pus under their skin) that require a physician to cut it open to let the pus drain out. This is a painful procedure. Most medical professionals will use numbing cream and inject numbing medicine into the skin, just like at the dentist, to help reduce the pain. While this helps minimize the pain of cutting the skin, it doesn't help the pain associated with draining out the pus.
There are many strategies and medications available to physicians to help decrease the pain of this procedure. Most of the medications available to treat the pain require the placement of an intravenous (IV) catheter through the patient's skin, which itself is a painful procedure. In the investigators emergency department, many patients with abscesses that need a procedure to drain the pus receive a medicine called morphine through an IV.
Some pain medicines, however, can be sprayed into a patient's nose, and have been shown to be helpful at reducing the pain of a broken bone or a burn. These medicines do not require the placement of an IV.
The purpose of this research study is to determine whether a medicine called fentanyl, when sprayed into the nose of patients aged 4 to 18 years undergoing abscess drainage, is not worse than IV morphine in decreasing the pain of the procedure.
After the risks and benefits of the study are explained to patients and their parents, written informed consent will be obtained. Written informed assent will be obtained for patients older than 8 years of age. Like the flipping of a coin, a computer program will decide randomly which half of the patients will receive fentanyl nose spray and which half will receive morphine by IV.
The patients assigned to receive fentanyl nose spray will not have an IV placed. The patients assigned to receive morphine will have an IV placed. Both groups of patients will have the abscess drainage procedure done the same way. All patients will be videotaped in order to score their pain by a trained observer. This score is the main outcome (measurement) in the study.
Study Overview
Status
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 3
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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New York
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New York, New York, United States, 10032
- Alexandra & Steven Cohen Children's Emergency Department of Columbia University Medical Center
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient is 4 years of age up to their 18th birthday
- Patient has a cutaneous abscess for which an I&D is to be performed
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient's parent doesn't speak English or Spanish
- Patient has developmental delay or neurological impairment
- Patient has altered mental status
- Known hypersensitivity to study drugs (fentanyl, morphine sulfate, lidocaine, LMX4®)
- The presence of significant blood or mucous in the nares despite blowing nose or suctioning
- Severe renal or liver dysfunction, signs of respiratory distress or depression, any respiratory distress, chronic and severe asthma, upper airway obstruction, suspected gastrointestinal obstruction, suspected paralytic ileus
- Narcotic analgesia within 4 hours of ED physician evaluation
- Need for moderate sedation, deep sedation, or general anesthesia
- Need for subspecialty consultation to perform the I&D
- Need for I&D of more than 1 skin abscess
- Cutaneous abscesses located on the genitals, breasts, face, or neck
- Previous enrollment in the study
- Patients with chronic pain syndromes (sickle cell disease, cancer, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease)
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Intranasal Fentanyl
Patients in this arm will receive intranasal Fentanyl (50 micrograms/mL) as their pre-I&D analgesic. The one time total dose to be used is 2 micrograms / kilogram, to a maximum of 100 micrograms. The medication will be delivered intranasally via an atomizer in 4 equally divided aliquots (2 per nare). The abscess I&D will be followed according to protocol using topical and local anesthetic. |
Drug: Fentanyl 50 micrograms/mL Dosage: 2 micrograms per kilogram (maximum 100 micrograms) Drug delivery: Intranasal via mucosal atomization device (MAD® Nasal, Wolfe Tory Medical Inc., Salt Lake City, UT) Frequency: one-time dose
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Active Comparator: Intravenous Morphine
Patients in this arm will receive intravenous morphine as their pre-I&D analgesic. The one time total dose to be used is 0.1 milligrams / kilogram, to a maximum of 8 milligrams. The medication will be delivered via slow IV push. The abscess I&D will be followed according to protocol using topical and local anesthetic. |
Drug: Morphine Dosage: 0.1 milligrams/kilogram (maximum 8 milligrams) Drug delivery: Slow IV push Frequency: one-time dose
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Score on the Observational Scale of Behavioral Distress Revised (OSBD-R)
Time Frame: Up to 10 minutes after the procedure completion
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Our primary outcome is the Observational Scale of Behavioral Distress - Revised (OSBD-R) to assess observed intra-procedural pain.
The total OSBD-R score is a summation of the OSBD-R score of each individual phase.
The score in each phase can range from 0 to 23.5.
There were four phases in our study, so the range of scores for the total OSBD-R was 0 to 94, with a higher score indicating a greater degree of pain and distress.
The four phases in the study are (1) before analgesia administration, (2) ten minutes after analgesia administration but before beginning I&D, (3) immediately post I&D procedure (to ascertain the pain perceived during procedure), and (4) ten minutes after procedure completion.
The scores documented here are the total OSBD-R scores.
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Up to 10 minutes after the procedure completion
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Score on the Faces Pain Scale Revised (FPS-R)
Time Frame: Up to 10 minutes after procedure completion
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The Faces Pain Scale - Revised (FPS-R) is a self-report measure of pain has strong validity and reliability in children 4 - 17 years of age undergoing painful procedures, and will be used to assess patients' self reported pain. A score of 0 means no pain, a score of 10 means very much pain. Therefore, a lower score indicates that a patient is experiencing a lower degree of pain intensity. Patients will complete the FPS-R at four times during their medical encounter: (1) before analgesia administration, (2) ten minutes after analgesia administration but before beginning I&D, (3) immediately post I&D procedure (to ascertain the pain perceived during procedure), and (4) ten minutes after procedure completion. |
Up to 10 minutes after procedure completion
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Number of Patients Satisfied With Analgesia Administered
Time Frame: 10 minutes after procedure completion
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Number of patients satisfied with analgesia administered will be evaluated by determining the number of patients who report a Likert scale response of "somewhat satisfied", "very satisfied", or "extremely satisfied" (i.e.
any patient who selects any of these three responses will be considered to have been satisfied with analgesia administered).
Patients will be asked 10 minutes after procedure completion.
If the patient is 8 years of age and older, both the patient and the parent or guardian will complete a satisfaction survey.
If the patients is younger than 8 years, their parent or guardian will complete the satisfaction survey.
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10 minutes after procedure completion
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Daniel Tsze, MD, MPH, Columbia University
- Study Director: Peter Dayan, MD, MSc, Columbia University
- Principal Investigator: Daniel Fenster, MD, Columbia University
Publications and helpful links
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Pathologic Processes
- Infections
- Inflammation
- Suppuration
- Abscess
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Central Nervous System Depressants
- Peripheral Nervous System Agents
- Analgesics
- Sensory System Agents
- Anesthetics, Intravenous
- Anesthetics, General
- Anesthetics
- Analgesics, Opioid
- Narcotics
- Adjuvants, Anesthesia
- Fentanyl
- Morphine
Other Study ID Numbers
- AAAI0699
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