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Given that multiple rounds of treatment are often required, and that the procedures are painful, achieving adequate analgesia is imperative in this setting. Paediatric procedural pain management guidelines suggest that multimodal non-pharmacological and pharmacological analgesia should be used for such procedures; however, the place of topical anaesthetic (TA) within this paradigm has not been adequately studied.<\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>This feasibility and pilot trial will investigate the feasibility of performing a randomised, placebo-controlled trial assessing pain intensity in children receiving TA in conjunction with other multimodal analgesic methods for laser procedures. The primary objective of the trial will be to assess feasibility, and secondary objectives will be to assess pain intensity, acceptability of trial procedures to participating families and their clinical team, to assess the laser treatment response, and obtain data necessary for full-scale trial sample size calculations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods and analysis<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The trial will include 50 children aged 0\u201318 years old who are undergoing awake PDL and\/or Nd:YAG laser treatment for scars or vascular anomalies. Patients will be randomised in a 1:1 ratio to receive either TA cream (lidocaine 2.5%\/prilocaine 2.5% (Numit 5% cream, Ego Pharmaceuticals, Braeside, VIC, Australia)) or a placebo, along with our unit\u2019s standard multimodal analgesic agents for laser treatment (including paracetamol, ibuprofen or oxycodone and intraprocedural sucrose solution or intranasal fentanyl). Investigators, participants and their caregivers, and clinicians will be blinded to participant allocation.<\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>The primary outcome of the trial will be trial feasibility based on pre-specified criteria. The secondary outcome of pain intensity will be assessed by observer, caregiver and self-reported measures, and the secondary outcome of trial method acceptability with a Theoretical Framework of Acceptability questionnaire. The assessment of laser treatment response will be assessed with lesion-specific evaluation tools. Feasibility and acceptability data will be summarised using descriptive statistics. The association between treatment groups and pain scores, treatment groups and laser treatment response will be investigated using a univariable linear regression model, with the effect estimate reported as mean difference and 95% CI.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Ethics and dissemination<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This trial has undergone ethical review and has been granted approval by the Children\u2019s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service Human Research Ethics Committee (ref HREC\/23\/QCHQ\/91002) and the Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee (ref 2023\/308). The protocol has been prospectively registered in the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12623000494639). Results of this trial may be presented at scientific meetings and will be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Participating families that have indicated an interest in trial results will receive a plain-language summary of the trial results by email.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Trial registration number<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>ACTRN12623000494639.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2025-113162","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,18]],"date-time":"2026-02-18T15:10:23Z","timestamp":1771427423000},"page":"e113162","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Study of topical anaesthetic for paediatric laser procedures (STAPLE): a protocol for a feasibility and pilot randomised controlled trial"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6890-6587","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria","family":"Shilova","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"},{"name":"Paediatric Surgery, Urology, Burns and Trauma, Queensland Children\u2019s Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"},{"name":"School of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia"},{"name":"Centre for Children\u2019s Burns and Trauma Research, Queensland Children\u2019s Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Karin","family":"Plummer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6129-6736","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robert S","family":"Ware","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Griffith Biostatistics Unit, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"},{"name":"Wesley Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Roy","family":"Kimble","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Paediatric Surgery, Urology, Burns and Trauma, Queensland Children\u2019s Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"},{"name":"School of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia"},{"name":"Centre for Children\u2019s Burns and Trauma Research, Queensland Children\u2019s Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bronwyn","family":"Griffin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"},{"name":"Centre for Children\u2019s Burns and Trauma Research, Queensland Children\u2019s Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026062610413535000_16.2.e113162.1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e12","DOI":"10.1542\/neo.26-1-002","article-title":"Neonatal Cutaneous Vascular Anomalies","volume":"26","author":"Evans","year":"2025","journal-title":"Neoreviews"},{"key":"2026062610413535000_16.2.e113162.2","unstructured":"Huang C , Wu Z , Du Y , et al . 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