Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability Study of Chloroprocaine 3% Gel Eye Drops in Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Signed and dated informed consent 2. Healthy male or female aged from 18 to 90 years 3. No clinically significant ocular or systemic disease 4. Ability to orally respond to pain 5. Ability to follow the visit schedule Exclusion Criteria: Ophthalmic exclusion criteria 1. Eye movement disorder (i.e. Nystagmus) 2. Dacryocystitis and all other pathologies of tears drainage system 3. History of Inflammatory ocular disease (Iritis, uveitis, herpetic keratitis) 4. Corneal, epithelial, stromal or endothelial, residual or evolutionary disease (including corneal ulceration and superficial punctuate keratitis) 5. History of ocular traumatism, infection or inflammation within the last 3 months 6. Best corrected visual acuity \< 1/10 7. History of ophthalmic surgical complication (i.e. cystoid macular oedema) Systemic/non ophthalmic exclusion criteria 8. General history: 8.1 Deafness 8.2 Excessive anxiety 9. Any other medical or surgical history, disorder or disease such as acute or chronic severe organic disease: hepatic, endocrine neoplastic, haematological diseases, severe psychiatric illness, relevant cardiovascular abnormalities (such as unstable angina, uncontrolled hypertension: systolic blood pressure over 200 mm Hg, diastolic blood pressure over 100 mm Hg) and/or any complicating factor or structural abnormality judged by the investigator to be incompatible with the study 10. Allergic history: Known hypersensitivity to one of the components of the study medications or to test products Specific non-inclusion criteria for women: 11. Pregnancy, lactation 12. Women without an effective method of contraception (i.e. oral contraceptive, intra-uterine device, subcutaneous contraceptive implant) OR 13. Women not hysterectomised, not menopausal nor surgically sterilized Exclusion criteria related to general conditions: 14. Inability of subject to understand the study procedures and thus inability to give informed consent 15. Non-compliant subject (e.g. not willing to attend the follow-up visits, way of life interfering with compliance) 16. Participation in another clinical study 17. Already included once in this study 18. Ward of court 19. Subject not covered by the Social Security Exclusion criteria related to previous and concomitant medications (taken within 15 days prior screening visit) 20. Use of systemic opioids and opioid drugs 21. Topical ocular treatment with anaesthetic action 22. Use of systemic analgesic drugs (except paracetamol, which will be allowed after Visit 2)