Bradycardia Following Intraoperative Administration of Dexmedetomidine

Joseph D. Tobias

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adenotonsillectomy; Tonsillectomy

Treatments: Drug: Dexmedetomidine

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01917097

IRB13-00524

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a retrospective chart review to evaluate the postoperative course of all pediatric patients admitted to the hospital following adenotonsillectomy over the past 24 months to evaluate the incidence of bradycardia in children who received dexmedetomidine intraoperatively and identify confounding factors which may be precipitating the bradycardia or potentiating the negative chronotropic effects of dexmedetomidine.

Enrollment: 921 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing adenontonsillectomy or tonsillectomy during 2011 and 2012.

Exclusion criteria

• None.

Trial design

921 participants in 2 patient groups

Dexmedetomidine patients

Description:

Patients that received dexmedetomidine during their surgery.

Treatment:

Drug: Dexmedetomidine

No Dexmedetomidine

Description:

Patients that didn't receive dexmedetomidine during surgery.