Effect of Calling the Patient's Name on Recovery From General Anesthesia

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Delayed Emergence From Anesthesia

Treatments: Procedure: Not calling the patient's name; Procedure: Calling the patient's name

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02149745

JHSeo_Calling

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to find if we can shorten the recovery time by calling the patient's name during anesthesia reversal.

Enrollment: 101 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient aged between 20-70
• patient receiving breast cancer surgery under general anesthesia with total intravenous anesthesia using remifentanil and propofol, and intubated with LMA

Exclusion criteria

• refusal of consent
• patients taking CNS stimulants
• general anesthesia with other agents than propofol and remifentanil
• intubated with other equipments than LMA
• chronic alcoholic patient
• patients with convulsive disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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101 participants in 2 patient groups

Calling the patient's name

Experimental group

Description:

The anesthesiologist tries to recover the patient's consciousness by calling the patient's name

Treatment:

Procedure: Calling the patient's name

Not calling the patient's name

Experimental group

Description:

The anesthesiologist tries to recover the patient's consciousness by giving verbal stimulus other than the patient's name

Treatment:

Procedure: Not calling the patient's name