Intravenous Sedation Versus General Anesthesia in Patients Undergoing Minor Gynecologic Surgery

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 0000-00-00
• Target enrollment: 80
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The use of deep sedation may improve the quality of recovery of patients undergoing minor gynecologic procedures. These patients may also have shorter hospital stays and potentially lower healthcare costs. Additionally, the use of deep sedation for second trimester pregnancy termination may be associated with less bleeding, a smaller decrease in perioperative hemoglobin and better quality of recovery.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Northwestern University
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Fentanyl; Ketamine; Propofol; Rocuronium; Sevoflurane; Succinylcholine
• Last Updated: 2015-10-05

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female patients undergoing second trimester abortions:

• Pregnancy: 12-24 weeks gestational size

• ASA PS I and II

• No history of diabetes mellitus, GERD or sleep apnea

• Age: > 18 years of age

• Fluent in English

Exclusion Criteria:

• ASA PSIII, Emergency surgery

• Pregnancy: > 24 weeks gestational size

• Age: < 18 years of age

• Diabetes mellitus

• Gastroesophageal reflux disease

• Hiatal hernia

• Obstructive sleep apnea

• Coagulopathy

• Chronic pain syndromes

• Chronic opioid dependency

• Alcohol or illicit drug abuse

• BMI: > 35Kg/m2

• Allergy to study protocol drugs

Drop out criteria:

• Subjects withdrawal of consent.

• Subjects who experience massive bleeding intraoperatively, will be excluded from the final data analysis