Tulobuterol Patch in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

• Tonsillectomy is a common pediatric procedure for the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing and chronic tonsillitis. Up to half of children having this procedure experience a perioperative respiratory adverse event.

• We tried to determine whether tulobuterol patch (transdermal bronchodilator) premedication decreases the risk of perioperative respiratory adverse events in children undergoing anesthesia for tonsillectomy.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital
• Collaborators: Chung-Ang University Hosptial, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine; Samsung Medical Center; Severance Hospital
• Treatments: Terbutaline; Tulobuterol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• pediatric patients undergoing tonsillectomy

Exclusion Criteria:

• recent upper respiratory infection (2weeks)

• Allergy to tulobuterol patch

• Patients receiving catecholamine (epinephrine, isoproterenol)

• hyperthyroidism

• hypertension

• cardiac disease

• Diabetes melitus

• atopic dermatitis

• Asthma