Efficacy and Safety of Fentanyl for Pain Control in Newborn on Mechanical Ventilation

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of the study is to assess the efficacy and safety of Fentanyl for pain control in Newborns on mechanical ventilator.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Treatments: Fentanyl

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. All inborn and outborn newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who received mechanical ventilation administered through an endotracheal tube.

2. Newborn on mechanical ventilator for at least 72 hours.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Known genetic or chromosomal disorders,

2. The need for postoperative analgesic therapy during the study period,

3. Major congenital anomaly,

4. Those who received drugs like midazolam, paracetamol, morphine, muscle relaxants, phenobarbital, phenytoin, and chloral hydrate during the study period.

5. Probable rapid extubation.