Co-induction Technique Compared to Standard Inhalational and Intravenous Induction Techniques

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-01-03
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Co-induction technique refers to the use of a combination of medications to reach the desired therapeutic target. In the present study, the investigators examined the safety of a novel co-induction approach that relied on a simple timing and dosing alterations to the classical approaches of inhalational sevoflurane and propofol induction. The significance of this study is to find a reliable safe alternative method of induction that can provide optimal parameters,when compared to the classical methods of induction.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Jordan
• Treatments: Propofol; Sevoflurane

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with Age ≥ 65 years.

• American Society of Anaesthesiologists' (ASA) score II or III.

• minimally invasive endoscopic urological procedures.

Exclusion Criteria:

• patient refusal.

• Age < 65 years.

• family history of malignant hyperthermia.

• prolonged surgery that needed intubation.

• body mass index (BMI) > 35 kg/m2.