Efficacy of ED Provider-Performed Dental Block for Pain Relief in Patients Presenting With Dental Pain
University of California, San Francisco
Summary
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.
Description
Patients will be provided written and verbal information about the study. If the patient does not agree to be enrolled in the study at that time, the patient will be asked to give the reason for refusing enrollment. The answer will be recorded without patient identifiers. Dental blocks will be done by EM faculty or residents, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners who are not necessarily study personnel as dental block is routinely done in the ED as standard of care. Dental block will not be performed by medical students or off-service rotating residents. Currently, providers are aske…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * 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 Exclusion Criteria: * 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 properl…
Location
- Community Regional Trauma and Burn CenterFresno, California