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Topical ibuprofen for skin analgesia prior to venepuncture
A J Smith1, K A Eggers, M R Stacey
1Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Anaesthesia
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
The analgesic effect of topical ibuprofen was investigated in ten volunteers. There were no significant differences in visual analogue scale pain scores for pinprick after 15 and 60 min of application of ibuprofen, placebo and EMLA cream. Comparison of visual analogue scale scores for venous cannulation after similar durations of ibuprofen and EMLA creams found significantly (p < 0.014) lower scores for EMLA at 60 min. We do not consider ibuprofen cream to be clinically useful for venous cannulation.