Total Intravenous Anesthesia: TCI Versus MCI

Università degli Studi di Ferrara

Status: Completed

Conditions: Test the Differences Between Schinder's TCI Model and MCI

Treatments: Device: Remifentanil and propofol administration using MCI; Device: Remifentanil and propofol administration using TCI

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02077478

15022014

Details and patient eligibility

About

test the following differences between Schinder's Target Controlled Infusion (TCI ) model and manually controlled infusion (MCI) :

• remifentanil and propofol total dose given
• incidence of awareness or inadequate anesthesia
• number of rescue dose given

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients undergoing breast or thyroid surgery

Exclusion criteria

• BMI > 35
• Surgery shorter than 30 minutes
• Patients with history of: alcol or drug abuse, kidney or liver failure, cardiovascular disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

MCI

Experimental group

Description:

manually controlled infusion will be used

Treatment:

Device: Remifentanil and propofol administration using MCI

TCI

Experimental group

Description:

Target Controlled Infusion will be used

Treatment:

Device: Remifentanil and propofol administration using TCI