The Effect of Dexmedetomidine for Emergence Cough

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-03-27
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Dexmedetomidine or remifentanil are effective in attenuating cough during peri-extubation period after general anesthesia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of dexmedetomidine on the remifentanil concentration for the cough suppression during anesthetic emergence.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ajou University School of Medicine
• Treatments: Dexmedetomidine; Remifentanil

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA physical status I or II undergoing endoscopic sinus surgery or septoplasty under general anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• predicted difficult airway

• body mass index > 35 kg/m2,

• recent upper respiratory infection

• asthma

• current smoker

• patients using angiotensin converting enzyme-inhibitors

• uncontrolled hypertension