Efficacy of Ametop Cream in Reducing Pain of Local Anesthetic Infiltration

Summary

Ametop is a numbing cream used to ease the pain of having blood drawn or an IV inserted. It is safe and virtually none enters the blood stream. It's effectiveness at reducing the pain of the freezing injection prior to epidural/ spinal anesthesia in pregnant women has not been studied.

Timeline

Start

2013-05

Primary completion

2013-10

Completion

2013-10

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.