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Randomized, Cross-over Study Evaluating the Effect of Sedation on Pain Relief After Diagnostic Injections
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Midazolam and Fentanyl for Sacroiliac Joint Pain and Sympathetically Maintained Pain. Completed, enrolled 73 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Interventional pain procedures have diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic value. It is well-documented that the reference standard for identifying a pain generator is a low-volume block performed with local anesthetic, with or without steroid. Many factors may increase the false positive (FP) rate of diagnostic and prognostic nerve blocks; however, the use of sedation is the most controversial and remediable. Proponents of sedation argue that it has little effect on the rate of positive diagnostic blocks, and may even reduce the false-negative rate. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of intravenous sedation on pain relief and the "false-positive rate" after diagnostic nerve blocks.
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Used for anxiolysis
Used for analgesia and as a sedative