Actively Recruiting
Be Sweet to Babies During Nasolaryngoscopy
Led by The Hospital for Sick Children · Updated on 2025-07-04
60
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
49 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The investigators want to know if sugar water containing 24% sucrose is helpful in reducing pain in babies during scopes.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Be Sweet to Babies During Nasolaryngoscopy
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Patient younger than 12 months of age
- Scheduled for an appointment with Dr. Nikolaus Wolter, Dr. Jennifer Siu, or Nurse Practitioner Meghan Tepsich at the Hospital for Sick Children
- Requires flexible nasolaryngoscopy for diagnostic purposes
- Caregivers provide consent for participation
You will not qualify if you...
- Patient older than 12 months of age
- Infants younger than 37 weeks corrected gestational age
- Infants with decreased consciousness or delayed neuromuscular development limiting pain response
- Infants who had acute or urgent airway assessment such as respiratory distress or foreign body
- Infants who received topical anesthesia or decongestant spray
- Infants with contraindications for oral sucrose including carbohydrate intolerance, absent gag reflex, non-functional gastrointestinal tract, history of aspiration or tracheoesophageal fistula, necrotizing enterocolitis
- Lack of parental consent for study participation
- Any condition preventing consent before the scope
- Conditions where flexible nasolaryngoscopy is contraindicated such as severe respiratory distress, post-palliative systemic artery to pulmonary artery shunt, or single ventricle congenital heart disease
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1E8
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
N
Nikolaus E. Wolter, MD
CONTACT
M
Mary-Elizabeth Vanderpost, RN
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Number of Arms
2
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