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Intranasal Versus Intravenous Drug in Painful Procedure for Outpatient Oncologic Participants

Registration Number
NCT04621110
Lead Sponsor
University of Sao Paulo General Hospital
Brief Summary

Pain is a vital sign that depends on personal experience involving different factors such as previous sensory and emotional experience, age, spiritual and cultural aspects, that makes it harder to evaluate, especially in young children. Pain control is important to diminish the anxiety of the child and family, also this is more important in patients who require procedure and treatment that are more painful, like oncological and hematological patients. The study aims to measure if the intranasal drugs (dexmedetomidine and fentanyl) has the same outcomes when compared with intravenous drug (ketamine and midazolam), but with less side effects. The participants are patients from an oncologic outpatient, that will be submitted to cerebrospinal fluid puncture, myelogram or both will be randomized assigned to both groups. The study will compare physiological variables ( heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure) and sedation and pain scales to see if its work properly. The study purpose is to evaluate if intranasal drug works in the same way with less side effects comparing with the usual treatment.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients with oncohematological diseases that requires cerebrospinal fluid, myelogram or both for staging and monitoring their treatment ( leukemia, lymphoma, solid tumors and bone marrow aplasia)
  • Patients who is undergoing to collect cerebrospinal fluid, myelogram or both;
  • aged between two and eight years;
  • absence of tumor recurrence.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Previous neurologic disease;
  • Using of opioid previously;
  • Neurological developmental delay

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
intravenous ketamine and midazolamintravenous midazolamketamine (ketalar®) and midazolam intravenous will be using to compare the efficiency of intranasal drugs
intravenous ketamine and midazolamintravenous ketamine (ketalar®)ketamine (ketalar®) and midazolam intravenous will be using to compare the efficiency of intranasal drugs
intranasal dexmedetomidine and fentanylintranasal dexmedetomidineDexmedetomidine (precedex®) and fentanyl will be administered by intranasal routes, seeing if both sedative (dexmedetomidine) and analgesic (fentanyl) can give enough sedation for procedure
intranasal dexmedetomidine and fentanylintranasal fentanylDexmedetomidine (precedex®) and fentanyl will be administered by intranasal routes, seeing if both sedative (dexmedetomidine) and analgesic (fentanyl) can give enough sedation for procedure
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
SedationThe Ramsay scale will be measure each 2 minutes up to 30 minutes.

Evaluate if intranasal drugs is effective for sedation in painful procedures for paediatric oncologic and hematologic patients. For access this, will be use Ramsay scale, this scale range between 1 to 6. 1 is a anxious patient and 6 sleeping patient without answer

Pain controlThe FLACC scale will be measure each 2 minutes up to 30 minutes.

Evaluate if intranasal drugs is effective for pain relief in painful procedures for paediatric oncologic and hematologic patients. To measure it will use Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability scale (FLACC). This is a scale for pain in children, and for each sign gives 0-2 point, and 0 is no pain and 7-10 intense pain

Change in heart rateeach 2 minutes up to 30 minutes

evaluate side effects using PALS ( paediatric advanced life support) values for ages. To evaluate this, heart rate values will be noted before the procedure, during and after that and will be evaluated if there was an increase or decrease in it, respecting a significance level of 5%.

Change in respiratory rateeach 2 minutes up to 30 minutes

evaluate side effects using PALS ( paediatric advanced life support) values for different ages. To evaluate this, respiratory rate values will be noted before the procedure, during and after that and will be evaluated if there was an increase or decrease in it, respecting a significance level of 5%.

Change in blood pressureeach 2 minutes up to 30 minutes

evaluate side effects using PALS ( paediatric advanced life support) values for ages. To evaluate this, blood pressure value will be noted before the procedure, during and after that and will be evaluated if there was an increase or decrease in it, respecting a significance level of 5%.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Comparison if intranasal drugs has the same sedation effects like intravenous drugeach 2 minutes after medication up to 30 minutes

Using Ramsay scale to compare both arms, intranasal and intravenous drugs. The Ramsay scale range between 1 to 6. 1 is a anxious patient and 6 sleeping patient without answer effect in sedation.

Comparison if intranasal drugs has the same pain relief as intravenous drugseach 2 minutes up to 30 minutes

Using Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability (FLACC) to compare both arms. The FLACC is a scale for pain in children, and for each sign gives 0-2 point, and 0 is no pain and 7-10 intense pain

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

ITACI - Instituto de Tratamento do Câncer Infantil/ ICR HCFMUSP

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São Paulo, Brazil

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