Use of Intraoperative Clonidine for Prevention of Postoperative Agitation in Pedriatic Anesthesia With Sevoflurane.

Professor Fernando Figueira Integral Medicine Institute

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Is an Only Child

Treatments: Drug: Clonidine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02181543

U1111-1157-8852

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine efficacy of intraoperative clonidine to prevent postoperative agitation in pediatric anesthesia with sevoflurane.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 2 - 12 Years.
• Need for tonsillectomy / adenotonsillectomy.
• Physical status of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) 1, 2 or 3.
• Anestesia geral com sevoflurano.
• Use of Intraoperative dipyrone, 30-50mg/Kg, IV.

Exclusion criteria

• Changes in consciousness.
• Neurological Deficit.
• Use of another drug as medication before anesthesia.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Clonidine

Experimental group

Description:

Clonidine 1μg/Kg, IV, single dose, anesthesia intraoperative.

Treatment:

Drug: Clonidine

No Clonidine

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care of Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira.