NCT02860377

Maternal Voice on Anesthetic Emergence Period

Effect of Recorded Maternal Voice on the Emergence of General Anesthesia on Pediatric Patients: a Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Daegu Catholic University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Mother spend a large amount of time with their children. It is assumed that mother contributes to their neurological development not only with visual stimuli, but also with auditory stimuli. A recent study revealed that prefrontal cortex can be activated in response to the self-name being spoken by the mother than by a stranger. Therefore, investigators suppose that recorded maternal voice can stimulate the pediatric patients and thereby fasten the emergence from general anesthesia.

Conditions

• Anesthesia, General

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	recorded maternal voice	A voice recording will be performed before the operation. At a preoperative visit or preoperative clinic, informed consent was obtained before the recording. On a calm environment, the mother was asked to speak following sentences. " OO (first name of child), wake up\~. Let's go home with mommy. OO, wake up\~. Open your eyes. Take a deep breath. " At the end of surgery, the recorded maternal voice was delivered to the child every 15 seconds until he/she wakes up.
PROCEDURE	recorded stranger's voice	A voice recording will be performed before the operation. On a calm environment, a blinded female investigator was asked to speak following sentences. " OO (first name of child), wake up\~. Let's go home with mommy. OO, wake up\~. Open your eyes. Take a deep breath. "

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-08-01
• Completion: 2017-09-01
• First posted: 2016-08-09
• Last updated: 2020-01-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea