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Taking people in SpainPhase 4
Compares two numbing treatments during an in-office glaucoma needling procedure
Compares lidocaine gel with numbing eye drops in adults having glaucoma needling.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Hospital Universitario De Torrevieja
- Where
- Alicante, SpainSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Clinical study of the anesthetic efficacy of 2% lidocaine gel versus tetracaine/oxybuprocaine anesthetic eye drops in patients operated on for glaucoma and undergoing needing techniques in outpatient surgery
- Status
- Recruiting
- Phase
- Phase 4
- People taking part
- 60 people, planned
- Started
- 9 Oct 2024
- Planned end
- 29 Jun 2024
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Record updated
- 19 February 2024
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults who had glaucoma surgery with a filter blister and now need a needling procedure in the clinic.
- Age
- Over 18 years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Glaucoma surgery with a filter blister, needing the needling procedure.
- Earlier treatment
- Must have had glaucoma surgery with a filter blister.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Pregnant or breastfeeding
- Cognitive impairment, cannot understand the visual analogue scale
- Hearing loss that prevents working with the team
- Anxiety disorder that prevents cooperation during the procedure
- Allergy to topical anesthetics
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Patients operated on glaucoma surgery with filter blister who require the needling procedure
- Patients over 18 years of age, who have understood and signed the informed consent
Who cannot take part
- Patients with cognitive impairment who do not understand the visual analogue scale
- Anxiety disorder that prevents patient's collaboration during the procedure
- Allergy to topical anesthetics
- Pregnant or lactating patients
- Hearing loss that prevents the patient from collaborating
- Patients who require needling in the operating room
Where in Spain
- Hospital Universitario De TorreviejaAlicante, SpainTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
To compare the anaesthetic efficacy of 2% lidocaine gel with 0.1% hydrochloride tetracaine eye drops / 0.4% oxybuprocaine hydrochloride in the in-office needling procedure in glaucoma surgery patients. To determine the mean procedure time in both anaesthetic treatment arms.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on the EU's official list of trials (CTIS).
- Official title
- Clinical study of the anesthetic efficacy of 2% lidocaine gel versus tetracaine/oxybuprocaine anesthetic eye drops in patients operated on for glaucoma and undergoing needing techniques in outpatient surgery
- Plain-language title
- Compares two numbing treatments during an in-office glaucoma needling procedureGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 9 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 19 February 2024