Reduction of Post Intravitreal Injection Bleeding and Pain by Ice
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Pain
- Interventions
- Other: ice packOther: room temperature pack
- Registration Number
- NCT03618875
- Lead Sponsor
- Wolfson Medical Center
- Brief Summary
Intravitreal injections are an efficient method for delivering intraocular therapeutic agents in numerous ophthalmologic diseases. However, side effects, such as pain and subconjunctival hemorrhage remain a major concern.
Prevention or alleviation of those side effects might shorten the healing duration and improve patients' quality of life.
- Detailed Description
cooling the eye using ice patched prior to Intravitreal injections may ameliorated pain and subconjunctival hemorrhage incidences.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 40
Inclusion Criteria
patients receiving intravitreal injection
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description ice ice pack Patients were randomly assigned to receive an ice 5 minutes prior the IViT placebo room temperature pack Patients were randomly assigned to a room temperature patch (placebo) 5 minutes prior the IViT
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method pain change between VAS pain score at baseline and 10 minutes Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is a Likert-type scale (1-10). The VAS is a reliable tool in evaluating and quantifying ocular discomfort
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method size of subconjunctival hemorrhage change between subconjunctival hemorrhage at baseline and 10 minutes subconjunctival hemorrhage in mm
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
The E.Wolfson Medical Center
🇮🇱Holon, Israel