BEnefit of HYpnosis on Pain During Stitches in Emergency Room
BEnefit of HYpnosis on Pain During Stitches in Emergency Room: the BE-HYPER Study
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
180 participants
Mar 1, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Suturing is a daily practice in the emergency department, but it can be painful and stressful for patients. Hypnosis is increasingly used as a complement to the usual painkillers. The aim of our study was to investigate the impact of hypnosis on stitch placement in emergency department patients presenting with lacerations assessed by heart rate variability.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria3
- Patient over 18 years, admitted in Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital Emergency Department
- suturable wound
- patient's consent obtained
Exclusion Criteria16
- Pregnant or breast-feeding women
- Patient under guardianship, curators or safeguard of justice
- Person unable to give consent
- History of cardiac rhythm disorders (fibrillation, pacemaker)
- Psychiatric pathology
- Age \< 18 years
- Surgical wound
- Eyelid, nose, ear or mouth wounds
- Patients who do not speak French
- Deaf patients
- Patients with no social security coverage
- Use of MEOPA
- Intake of toxic substances
- Head trauma with a Glasgow Score \< or = to 14
- Patient with endocrinal pathologies on cortisol axe
- Refusal to take part in the study
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Interventions
Before the beginning of stitches, the patient will be offered a hypnotic induction. The hypnotic induction is the initial phase of the hypnosis process. Its goal is to bring the patient to a state of dissociation: the hypnotic trance. Induction is usually achieved through progressive relaxation, sensory focusing, and a process of confusion.
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NCT06497712