Emergence Agitation in Pediatric Strabismus Surgery

Yeungnam University College of Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emergence Agitation

Treatments: Drug: fentanyl group; Drug: remifentanil group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03807011

YUMC 2017-04-071

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was performed to assess the effects of continuous remifentanil infusion and single bolus administration of fentanyl on the incidence of emergence agitation in pediatrics undergoing strabismus surgery.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 8 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients undergoing elective subumbilical surgery,
• physical status was American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class 1 or 2

Exclusion criteria

• history of airway problem,
• upper respiratory tract infection within 2 weeks,
• developmental delay,
• neurological or psychological disease,
• history of allergy to the drugs in our protocol were excluded in this study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

fentanyl

Active Comparator group

Description:

A bolus dose of fentanyl 2 μg/kg was administered intravenously at anesthetic induction

Treatment:

Drug: fentanyl group

remifentanil

Active Comparator group

Description:

Remifentanil was continuously infused at a rate of 0.2 μg/kg/min from anesthetic induction to the end of surgery

Treatment:

Drug: remifentanil group