Psychological Influences on Postoperative Recovery

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2009-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The primary hypothesis tested in this project is that the preoperative behavioral stress response predicts postoperative behavioral and clinical recovery of children undergoing surgery.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Yale University
• Collaborator: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Midazolam

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Outpatient tonsillectomy or tonsils/adenoids

• ASA I, II

Exclusion Criteria:

• Developmental delay

• ASA III-IV

• Psychotropic medication

• Meds which interfere with metabolism of midazolam

• 36 weeks gestation