Vibration-assisted Anesthesia in Eyelid Surgery

摘要: Purpose To investigate whether a vibrating device applied in circular motion to the forehead reduces pain of local anesthetic injection upper eyelid surgery. Design Prospective, interventional, cross-over, randomized, controlled clinical trial. Participants Eighty patients undergoing bilateral surgery under anesthesia. Intervention A was participants' foreheads while injected into 1 eyelid. During on contralateral lid, static fashion with vibration switched off (placebo). The order intervention randomized. Main Outcome Measures After both injections had been given, participants were asked specify their ratings for each scale 0 10, representing no and 10 indicating worst imaginable. also qualitatively compare 2 sides. Results mean scores 3.3 vibration-assisted side 4.5 placebo. This difference statistically significant ( P =0.0003); 73% found vibrated be better than placebo, 35% finding it lot or quite bit better. Conclusions Vibration-assisted anesthesia during has beneficial effect that is highly clinically terms patients' qualitative assessment pain. Further research needed determine this constitutes quantitatively improvement management. Financial Disclosure(s) author(s) have proprietary commercial interest any materials discussed article.