IV Start

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See IV start procedure utilizing Pain Ease as an effective topical anesthetic.

Important Risk and Safety Information for Gebauer's Pain Ease

  • Published clinical trials support the use in children three years of age and older
  • Do not use on large areas of damaged skin, puncture wounds, animal bites or serious wounds
  • Do not spray in eyes
  • Over spraying may cause frostbite
  • Freezing may alter skin pigmentation
  • Use caution when using product on diabetics or persons with poor circulation
  • Apply only to intact oral mucous membranes
  • Do not use on genital mucous membranes
  • The thawing process may be painful and freezing may lower resistance to infection and delay healing
  • If skin irritation develops, discontinue use
  • Rx Only

Qualities of the Ideal
Topical Anesthetic*

  • Painless to Administer
  • Works Immediately
  • Simple-to-Use
  • Cost Effective
  • Proven Safe

*Achieving the Painless ED: Topical Anesthetics. Presented by Jill M. Baren, MD., MBE, FACEP, FAAP, ACEP Advanced Pediatric Emergency Medicine Assembly, New York, April 2007.

Painful Procedures Are Performed More Effectively

Emergency practitioners know that painful procedures are performed more effectively when pain is controlled, and effective pain management is becoming the standard of care in emergency medicine. Gebauer’s Pain Ease topical anesthetic skin refrigerant is fast, safe and effective.

Pain Ease Provides Instant Pain Control

Pain Ease topical anesthetic skin refrigerant instantly and temporarily controls the pain associated with needle procedures and minor surgical procedures such as incision and drainage of small abscesses, lancing boils, foreign body removal, suturing and suture removal, IV starts, blood draws, and prior to lidocaine injections.

Pain Ease Is Fast, Safe and Effective

Pain Ease is non-drug and non-flammable and can be used by any licensed healthcare practitioner without the order of a physician.

  • It works immediately.
  • It is easy to apply.
  • It can be reapplied.
  • It lasts up to one minute.

* The Assessment and Management of Acute Pain in Infants, Children and Adolescents. Pediatrics, 108, 3, September 2001, page 274.
** Berry P., Dahl J.L., Donovan M.I., Fine P.G. Miaskowski C., Seilman M., Syrjala K. Improving the Quality of Pain Management Through Measurement and Action. March 2003, page 1. Monograph retrieved Dec. 2005 from jcaho.org.