Pediatric Emergency Suture Care: a Trial Comparing the Analgesic Efficacy of Hypnosis Versus MEOPA

Exclusion Criteria

• •The patient is participating in another interventional study
• •The patient has participated in another interventional study in the last 3 months
• •The patient is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study
• •The patient and/or his/her parents (or legal representative) refuses to sign the consent
• •It proves impossible to correctly inform the patient and / or his/her parents (or legal representative)
• •The patient has a contra-indication (or an incompatible drug combination) for a treatment required in this study (MEOPA): intracranial hypertension, impaired consciousness, pneumothorax, high rate oxygen-dependence, facial trauma preventing mask application.
• •The patient has a condition that makes hypnosis impossible: e.g. encephalopathy, deafness, communication disorders, does not speak French
• •Suture requiring surgical exploration or an operating room, or general anesthesia or an ears-nose-throat, orthopedic or visceral surgeon (e.g. wound of the oral cavity, abdominal or thoracic penetrating wound, finger or palm wound requiring exploration by an orthopaedist)
• •Fractures associated with wound
• •Use of level II/III analgesics before the beginning of pre-suture care support