Lidocaine as Local Anesthetics in Children Under Ketamine Sedation

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2018-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Ketamine seems an obvious choice in the setting of an emergency department in laceration repair.

Lidocaine is the local anesthetics widespread used.

Ketamine leads to dissociative amnesia.

Theoretically , lidocaine is not useful in laceration repair using ketamine.

However, lidocaine is used with ketamine in many emergency department.

The investigators compare lidocaine with placebo as an adjunct to ketamine sedation in children undergoing primary closure

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Ketamine; Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients who need suturing for laceration under procedural anesthesia using ketamine

Exclusion Criteria:

• contraindication to ketamine and lidocaine

• patients involved to other studies

• more or equal to American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) class III

• not alert