Effect of Oral Dexmedetomidine, Ketamine, Or Midazolam as Preioperative Medications.
PERIOPERATIVE EFFECTS OF ORAL DEXMEDETOMIDINE, KETAMINE, OR MIDAZOLAM PREMEDICATION IN CHILDREN UNDERGOING ADENOTONSILLECTOMY
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Brief Summary
Anxiety preceding surgery results in hemodynamic instability, metabolic side effects, increased post-operative pain, and agitation during emergence. Therefore, pharmacological interventions are used to reduce pre-operative anxiety and enhance anesthetic induction without delaying recovery. The premedication must be administered in a manner that is safe, painless, and without significant adverse effects. In children, the incidence of emergency agitation or delirium after general anesthesia ranges from 10% to 80% and significantly increases the incidence of other complications after anesthesia, such as self-injury, prolonged postanesthesia care unit (PACU) stay, frustration of parents and care providers. Numerous pharmacological and non-pharmacological techniques, including sedative premedication, parental presence, and training programs for participants and their parents, have been investigated to reduce anxiety and enhance compliance during anesthesia induction. An ideal premedication prescription should sedate a child to facilitate separation from parents, thus simplifying anesthesia induction and creating a pleasant surgical experience for both children and parents. \[5\] Anxiolysis is the major objective of premedication in children, as it facilitates separation from parents and facilitates the induction of anesthesia. Premedication may also induce amnesia, the prevention of physiologic stress, vagolysis, a decrease in total anesthetic requirements, a lower likelihood of aspiration, decreased salivation and secretions, antiemesis, and analgesia. All drugs have the potential to make people sleepy and slow their breathing, so they must be given with extreme care and closely watched. Ketamine is a useful sedative and analgesic for preventing preoperative anxiety in children; it exerts its analgesic effect through the reversible antagonist action of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. It has analgesic and sedative effects in different doses of administration. Ketamine is often administered orally and is αreported to be safe and effective in pediatric patients. An effective sedative and analgesic with minimal respiratory depressive effects is dexmedetomidine, an α2-adrenoceptor agonist. It also reduces the hemodynamic stress response due to its sympatholytic effect. These characteristics make it a possible anesthetic premedication. Midazolam, a water-soluble benzodiazepine, is commonly used as a preanesthetic medicine in children due to its several favorable effects: sedation, anxiolysis, antegrade amnesia, rapid onset, and brief duration of action. Adenoidectomy and/or tonsillectomy are the most common surgical procedures done on children. Hence, the present study will be conducted to objectively evaluate, the perioperative effects of oral dexmedetomidine, ketamine, or midazolam premedication in patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy.
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Target at P75+ for phase_4
Started Mar 2023
Shorter than P25 for phase_4
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
March 1, 2023
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
April 5, 2023
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
May 24, 2023
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
March 1, 2024
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
March 1, 2024
CompletedJune 26, 2023
June 1, 2023
1 year
April 5, 2023
June 23, 2023
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
measure sedative effectes of Dexmedetomidine, Ketamine, or Midazolam using modified observer's assessment of alertness/sedation scale and parental separation anxiety scale.
measure sedative effectes of Dexmedetomidine, Ketamine, or Midazolam using modified observer's assessment of alertness/sedation scale and parental separation anxiety scale.
12 months
Secondary Outcomes (2)
Amount of analgesia required postperative by Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability (FLACC) Behavioural Pain Scale.
12 months
Measure Emergence agitation by Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS)
12 months
Study Arms (3)
Group D; oral Dexmedetomidine
EXPERIMENTALwill receive 4 micrograms/kg oral Dexmedetomidine diluted in paracetamol \[Paracetamol syrup 150 mg/5ml\] at a dose of 15 mg/kg given 45 minutes before the induction of anaesthesia.
Group K; oral ketamine group
EXPERIMENTALwill receive 6 mg/kg oral Ketamine diluted in paracetamol \[Paracetamol syrup 150 mg/5ml\] at a dose of 15 mg/kg 45 minutes before the induction of anaesthesia.
Group M; oral Midazolam group
EXPERIMENTALwill receive 0.3 mg/kg (maximum 20 mg) oral Midazolam diluted in paracetamol \[Paracetamol syrup 150 mg/5ml\] at a dose of 15 mg/kg given 45 minutes before the induction of anaesthesia.
Interventions
will receive 4 micrograms/kg oral Dexmedetomidine diluted in paracetamol \[Paracetamol syrup 150 mg/5ml\] at a dose of 15 mg/kg given 45 minutes before the induction of anaesthesia
will receive 6 mg/kg oral ketamine diluted in paracetamol \[Paracetamol syrup 150 mg/5ml\] at a dose of 15 mg/kg 45 minutes before the induction of anaesthesia
will receive 0.3 mg/kg (maximum 20 mg) oral Midazolam diluted in paracetamol \[Paracetamol syrup 150 mg/5ml\] at a dose of 15 mg/kg given 45 minutes before the induction of anaesthesia
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- All patients within the age range of 3 to 8 years old.
- Elective non complicated adenotonsillectomy.
- ASA I or II physical status.
You may not qualify if:
- Refusal of the patient's parents or legal guardians to give informed consent.
- History of allergy to any of the study drugs.
- Preoperative intake of opioid or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs within 24 h before surgery.
- Neurological and/or psychological diseases.
- Associated cardio-respiratory illness
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Menoufia university hospitails
Shibīn al Kawm, Menoufia, 32111, Egypt
MeSH Terms
Interventions
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- phase 4
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- QUADRUPLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
- Masking Details
- All are blinded
- Purpose
- SUPPORTIVE CARE
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Principal Investigator
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
April 5, 2023
First Posted
May 24, 2023
Study Start
March 1, 2023
Primary Completion
March 1, 2024
Study Completion
March 1, 2024
Last Updated
June 26, 2023
Record last verified: 2023-06