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Pediatric Pain Management
Pediatric clinical study of topical pain killer at children's center completed
February 21st, 2005
Sontra Medical Corporation (SONT) announced the completion of the first clinical evaluation of the SonoPrep device in a clinical study of 70 young children, ages 3 to 7. This was a single-center prospectively controlled study designed to show that the analgesic effect of a 5-minute application of LMX Lidocaine Anesthetic Cream after ultrasonic pretreatment was equivalent to a 30-minute application of LMX in children presenting for venipuncture at an urban out-patient phlebotomy clinic. The child rated the pain of his or her experience, and the parent rated assessment of their child's pain from the needle procedure. William Zempsky, MD, associate...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2005-02-21)
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