Dental Block for Pain Relief in ED Dental Pain Patients
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Conditions studied: Dental Pain
In brief
This will be a prospective, observational cohort study assessing immediate pain relief from dental block in ED patients presenting with dental pain. The study will be conducted in the Community Regional Medical Center ED. The aim of this study, then, is to prospectively determine if dental block provides minimal clinically important difference in pain relief to these patients.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05351099
- Run by
- University of California, San Francisco
- People needed
- 195
- Starts
- 2022-03-11
- Expected to finish
- 2026-03-11
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-02-28
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adult patients (>= 18-years-old) presenting to Community Regional Medical Center emergency department with a complaint of dental pain in whom the ED practitioner plans to perform a dental nerve block
You may not qualify if…
- Patient with previous dental block within 24 hours prior to arrival at the ED
- Refusal of dental block
- Patient in law enforcement custody
- Patient unable to be properly informed of study purpose or able to complete pain VAS score due to physical/ mental condition (altered mental status, unstable psychiatric patient)
- Patient unable to be properly informed of study purpose or able to complete pain VAS score due to language barrier (not English- or Spanish-speaking)
- Patient with other acute non-dental painful condition making evaluation of dental pain severity vs non-dental pain severity not possible
- Patient with pain in multiple areas of mouth needing dental block in > 1 anatomic area
- Patient to have Dental / OMFS ED consult for procedure
Where it is running
- Community Regional Trauma and Burn Center — Fresno, California, United States (enrolling)
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