Intravenous Lidocaine for Post-Tonsillectomy Pain in Pediatric Patients

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether giving lidocaine intravenously during and after a tonsillectomy surgery is effective in decreasing postoperative pain.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Scheduled for Tonsillectomy (with or without Adenoidectomy) with Dr. Kathleen Billings or Dr. Stephen Hoff at Lurie Children's Hospital

• American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) patient classification I-III (Healthy patient to a patient with mild systemic disease)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Physical or developmental delays

• Psychiatric illness

• Current use of sedative or anticonvulsant medications

• Pre-existing renal disease (ranging from stage 2 [mild] to stage 5 [end stage])

• Pre-existing cardiovascular disease (including, not limited to congenital heart disease or arrythmia)

• Pre-existing liver disease

• Pre-existing cerebral or neuromuscular disease

• Patient or family history of Malignant Hyperthermia

• Recent history of upper respiratory infection within last 7 days

• Regular use of analgesic medication

• Diagnosis of severe obstructive sleep apnea requiring overnight stay for observation

• Other procedure scheduled in addition to tonsillectomy

• History of allergies to local anesthetics