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Local Anesthetic

Eyelid Lesion Removal for Local Anesthesia

Phase 4

Waitlist Available

Led By Robert Kersten, MD

Research Sponsored by University of California, San Francisco

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 10 minutes

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will compare the pain levels of those who receive traditional local anesthesia to those who receive bacteriostatic saline for minor eyelid procedures.

Eligible Conditions

Local Anesthesia
Stye
Ptosis
Eyelid Papilloma
Eye Care
Eyelid Tumors
Eyelid Abscess

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 10 minutes

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~10 minutes

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 10 minutes for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Pain of procedure

Pain

Secondary outcome measures

Additional Anesthesia

Bleeding level

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Bacteriostatic Saline as Local AnesthesiaExperimental Treatment2 Interventions

Patients receiving bacteriostatic saline as local anesthesia for in-office minor eyelid procedures at University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, Oculoplastics department

Group II: Lidocaine with Epinephrine as Local AnesthesiaActive Control2 Interventions

Patients receiving lidocaine with epinephrine as local anesthesia for in-office minor eyelid procedures at University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, Oculoplastics department

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

0.9% Bacteriostatic Local Anesthetic Injection

2022

Completed Phase 4

~100

Eyelid Lesion Removal

2022

Completed Phase 4

~100

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Who is running the clinical trial?

University of California, San FranciscoLead Sponsor

2,498 Previous Clinical Trials

11,936,253 Total Patients Enrolled

Robert Kersten, MDPrincipal InvestigatorUniversity of California, San Francisco

1 Previous Clinical Trials

401 Total Patients Enrolled

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Who can sign up for this particular clinical trial?

"Eligible participants for this study must have seen an ophthalmologist and be between 18-110 years old. A total of 150 people will be accepted into the trial."

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What risks are associated with Eyelid Lesion Removal surgery?

"Eyelid Lesion Removal is a Phase 4 trial, so it has already been approved and scored as a 3 on the Power team's safety scale."

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Will this program be testing its treatments on elderly patients?

"The requirements to take part in this trial state that potential participants must be between 18-110 years old. There are 23 similar trials for people under 18 and 81 for those 65 and older."

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Are patient volunteers currently being accepted for this research project?

"According to the most recent information available on clinicaltrials.gov, this particular trial is no longer seeking patients for participation. The study was originally posted on May 1st, 2022 and updated for the last time on March 23rd, 2022. It's worth mentioning that there are 106 other trials currently looking for eligible participants."

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Recent research and studies

EyeJournal

Bacteriostatic Preserved Saline for Pain-free Periocular Injections: Review

Hunt, Samantha Vicki, and Raman Malhotra. 2022. “Bacteriostatic Preserved Saline for Pain-free Periocular Injections: Review”. Eye. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41433-021-01925-z.

formation/NLM/NIH, NCBI. “Gprobe”. 2017. Web. <https://github.com/ncbi/gprobe>..Journal

Gprobe

Information/NLM/NIH, NCBI. 2017. “Gprobe”. GitHub repository. https://github.com/ncbi/gprobe.

Obstetrics & GynecologyJournal

A Double-blind Randomized Comparison of Lidocaine and Saline for Cervical Anesthesia

MILLER, L, M JENSEN, and M STENCHEVER. 1996. “A Double-blind Randomized Comparison of Lidocaine and Saline for Cervical Anesthesia”. Obstetrics & Gynecology. Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). doi:10.1016/0029-7844(95)00463-7.

Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive SurgeryJournal