Neonatal Spinal Anesthesia: Effects of the Addition of Clonidine

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2009-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This prospective, double blinded study investigates spinal anesthesia with or without clonidine added to bupivacaine in newborns. This study is based on duration measurement of spinal anesthesia and cardio respiratory recording during 24h for apnea detection.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Bupivacaine; Clonidine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Newborns less than 60 weeks old post-conceptional, former premature or not

• Newborns requiring inguinal hernia or lower limbs surgery,

• infants needing no more critical care assistance

• Informed consent of parents

Exclusion Criteria:

• Spinal malformation,

• Coagulopathy,

• critical hemodynamics,

• uncontrolled neurologic or metabolic pathology.

• infection at injection point.