Study: Kids Love Zingo No Needles Local Anesthesia

William T. Zempsky, MD, from the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, and colleagues from five other hospitals just published a randomized, double-blind study in the latest issue of Pediatrics, that has shown that a “needle-free powder lidocaine delivery system was well tolerated and produced significant analgesia within 1 to 3 minutes,” in pediatric patients scheduled to undergo venipuncture or cannulation. The system used in the study was Zingo™ lidocaine powder intradermal injector from Anesiva, Inc., a South San Francisco, CA company. The system, that uses compressed gas to accelerate the lidocaine particles under the skin, was approved by the FDA in August 2007, ” to reduce the pain associated with peripheral IV insertions or blood draws in children three to 18 years of age.”
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Abstract: Needle-Free Powder Lidocaine Delivery System Provides Rapid Effective Analgesia for Venipuncture or Cannulation Pain in Children: Randomized, Double-Blind Comparison of Venipuncture and Venous Cannulation Pain After Fast-Onset Needle-Free Powder Lidocaine or Placebo Treatment Trial PEDIATRICS Vol. 121 No. 5 May 2008, pp. 979-987
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