NCT01440114

The Effect of Intravenous Fentanyl Prior the End of Surgery on Emergence Agitation in Paediatric Patients After General Anesthesia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 144 (actual)
• Sponsor: Prince of Songkla University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 9 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The propose of this study is to determine the effect of intravenous fentanyl prior the end of surgery on the incidence and severity of EA in pediatric patient.

Detailed description

Emergence agitation (EA) is a common self limiting problem after emerging from general anesthesia (GA) especially in pediatric patients. The incidence of EA in Thai population, the incidences of EA 43.2% in pediatric patients aged between 2-9 years. There have been many studies tried to reduce the incidence of EA in various ways such as Preoperative anxiety reduction method and medication. Premedication, Sedative drugs and narcotic drugs were used to reduce the incidence of EA.

Conditions

• Agitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	fentanyl	In intervention group patient received fentanyl 1 mcg/kg intravenous 15 minutes before the end of surgery.
DRUG	NSS	Patient in this group received NSS (0.1ml/kg)intravenous route 15 minutes before the end of surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-03-01
• Primary completion: 2011-07-01
• Completion: 2011-07-01
• First posted: 2011-09-26
• Last updated: 2011-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand