Assessment of local anaesthetic techniques in cataract surgery.

ISRCTN	ISRCTN19439616
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN19439616
Secondary identifying numbers	N0065149380

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Mr RWD Bell
Scientific

Department of Ophthalmology
Sunderland Eye Infirmary
Queen Alexandra Road
Sunderland
Sunderland
SR2 9HP
United Kingdom

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Hospital
Study type	Treatment
Scientific title
Study objectives	To evaluate the pain patients experience during cataract surgery with three different types of local anaesthesia, using two types of pain questionnaires (McGill pain questionnaire and visual analoque scale).
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Surgery: Cataract
Intervention	A randomised, controlled trial comparing three types of anaesthesia: peribulbar, sub-tenon and topical.
Intervention type	Procedure/Surgery
Primary outcome measure	Quality of pain control through cataract surgery with different types of anaesthetic. Assessment of pain the patients have with anaesthetic administration.
Secondary outcome measures	Not provided at time of registration
Overall study start date	01/10/2004
Completion date	01/10/2006

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Not Specified
Sex	Not Specified
Target number of participants	100 patients in each arm - 300
Key inclusion criteria	Not provided at time of registration
Key exclusion criteria	Not provided at time of registration
Date of first enrolment	01/10/2004
Date of final enrolment	01/10/2006

Department of Ophthalmology

Sunderland
SR2 9HP
United Kingdom

Department of Health
Government

Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom

Government

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust R&D Department

No information available

NHS R&D Support Funding

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Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Abstract results	publication in Br J Ophthalmol. Sep;89(9):1228 entitled "Patient satisfaction with anaesthesia comparing sub-Tenon's block and topical anaesthesia" but no abstract available	01/09/2005		No	No