Clinical Trial: Pain Experience Using Lidocaine Adrenaline Tetracaine (LAT) Gel Versus Lidocaine Infiltration for Laceration Repair in Adults

U.S., March 19 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07480135) titled 'Pain Experience Using Lidocaine Adrenaline Tetracaine (LAT) Gel Versus Lidocaine Infiltration for Laceration Repair in Adults' on March 14.

Brief Summary: This prospective comparative study evaluates pain experience in adult patients undergoing laceration repair in the emergency department using either topical lidocaine-adrenaline-tetracaine (LAT) gel or lidocaine infiltration as local anaesthesia. Lidocaine infiltration is the standard anaesthetic technique for wound repair but can cause significant pain during injection. LAT gel is a needle-free topical anaesthetic that is widely used in paediatric patients but has been less stud...