Correlation Between Pain and Emergence Delirium After Adenotonsillectomy in Preschool Children

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence of pain, emergence delirium and the combination of those postoperative negative behaviours during the first 15 minutes after awakening from sevoflurane anesthesia in pre-school children. Additionally this study will evaluate the relationship between emergence delirium and postoperative pain behaviour after adenotonsil surgery.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: San Gerardo Hospital
• Collaborator: University of Milano Bicocca
• Treatments: Sevoflurane

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male and Female children from 2 to 6 years of age

• American Society of Anaesthesiologists Classification (ASA) I: without systemic disease

• American Society of Anaesthesiologists Classification (ASA) II: moderate systemic disease

• Scheduled for elective tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy.

• Children whose parents (or legal tutors) have given their informed written consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Emergency surgery.

• Children whose parents (or legal tutors) denied their own consensus

• Children with known cognitive impairment

• A story of kidney, liver, pulmonary or cardiac disease.

• A history of chronic pain or use of analgesic drugs.

• Familiar or personal history of malignant hyperthermia

• Need premedication or total intravenous anaesthesia.