Variation of Cerebral Blood Flow in Anterior Cerebral and Basilar Artery in Neonates and Infants in Genreal Anesthesia With Caudal Block

Bürgerhospital Frankfurt

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatric Anesthesia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02761954

Kaudal Studie

Details and patient eligibility

About

With this study we want to see how the blood flow in the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) and the basilar artery (BA) after the caudal block changes.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 12 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• opened big fontanella
• infraumbilical surgery

Exclusion criteria

• cardiac or cerebral disease
• prior operation on vertebra, heart or head/brain
• malforamtion of head or vertebra
• closed fontanella
• contraindication for caudal block (von-Willebrand-Syndrome, haemophilia,...)