Effects of Dexmedetomidine on Tourniquet Pain Associated With Lower Extremity Surgeries Under General Anesthesia

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study is being done to determine if the drug known as dexmedetomidine improves the way we care for patients when their surgery involves the use of a tourniquet on the leg. A tourniquet is sometimes used for lower leg or foot surgery to decrease the blood loss for the patient and to make it easier for the surgeon to do his work.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Treatments: Dexmedetomidine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients undergoing lower extremity surgery which requires the use of an inflated tourniquet ASA rating I-III

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy to alpha 2 adrenergic agonists

• Uncontrolled hypertension (SBP>180mm HG, Diastolic Blood Pressure >110mmHG)

• Heart block greater than first degree or cardiac muscle at risk for reversible ischemia

• Airway anatomy that contra-indicates the use of a laryngeal airway mask expected tourniquet time less than 60 minutes or greater than 150 minutes

• Subjects who do not have a phone